Robbyb71

Unfortunately I haven't many time to do this. The 256 bitmap are a 0,01% of my job, therefore I can't spend many time for this. Otherwise, I can try to do this in my free time ... can you tell me where I can find a documentation for beginners ? Thanks

Hello, thanks for your reply. Usually, i don't change the color at position 7 to RGB 192,192,192, because the the old painter put automatically the 16 Windows standard color in the first sixteen position of the palette. If I could modify the color in the 7 position of the palette on 256 bitmap images, the problem is solved. But in Paint.NET I didn't found nothing to do this (correct me if it is wrong). Yesterday I find a filetype plugin to downgrade the colors to 8 bit and also to x colors (LowColors is the name of the plugin), but there are no options to include windows standard colors in first 16 position. Including the 16 standard windows color in the palette of 256 BMP is probably only a problem for me, but if it was a plugin that can modify the single color palette, i think that will be intersting for many others ... or not ? Have a nice day

Unfortunately I have no idea on how do this. I don't know the tools for developing plugin for paint.net ...

Many thanks to all for your reply ! Sorry for putting the topic in wrong area, but for me was a trouble ... I have an application (Cobol compiler) that want a 256 bitmap for push buttons. The compiler substitute the gray 192,192,192 with transparent effect but only if the gray is in standard position (like windows standard palette). Otherwise the transparent trasformation fail. The painter that I used before Paint.net, had a tool 'Convert to 256 colors' with the option 'Include Windows Colors'. If this option is checked, the first 16 colors of the palette are the Windows standard colors and the remaining 240 are used for the colors in the image (the nearest one if there is a conversion from 24 to 8 bit). For us (I work in a software house) are very useful ! I love Paint.net, but without this option or a workaround to do it, I can't left other painter ... :-( Thanks

Hello, I have to convert a 24 bit BMP in a 256 color BMP, but the palette in 256 color image, must have the first 16 colors with Windows standard colors. I haven't found how to do this ... If i use 'Save with name' + bmp and then i select 8 bit deep, the palette in the image has not the Windows default colors. Can you help me ? Thanks