Kittani Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 I love the program, but unfortunately I have to use three other programs to do what I need to do with it. The problem is color palette size. 96 colors is a lot, but much of my work uses 200-250 colors. Is there a plugin or a config file somewhere where I can increase the palette to 16x16? Right now I have to import the images I'm editing into Graphics gale, export and manually convert the palette into pieces, then switch between the pieces in Paint.net... if I edit the colors (which is a pain in Graphics gale comparatively) I have to reverse those procedures to go back to graphics gale. A 16x16 palette would solve this issue and let me do nearly all of my spriting in PDN. Gimp and Photoshop are way overcomplicated for what I do and don't have the magnification my shaky old hands need hehe. I did find another post on this that died rather quickly and wasn't entirely relevant so I refrained from necro-posting it. Besides this may already be an un-announced future upgrade. Also, the new "Web-Smart" palette is 4097 colors (64x64+Blk) So moving to a larger palette would help web developers too. (I think the web safe palette is dead, actually) Anyways, Just wondering. My work requires consistent coloring across hundreds of tiny images and that's hard to do with a small palette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittani Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 I love the program, but unfortunately I have to use three other programs to do what I need to do with it. The problem is color palette size. 96 colors is a lot, but much of my work uses 200-250 colors. Is there a plugin or a config file somewhere where I can increase the palette to 16x16? Right now I have to import the images I'm editing into Graphics gale, export and manually convert the palette into pieces, then switch between the pieces in Paint.net... if I edit the colors (which is a pain in Graphics gale comparatively) I have to reverse those procedures to go back to graphics gale. A 16x16 palette would solve this issue and let me do nearly all of my spriting in PDN. Gimp and Photoshop are way overcomplicated for what I do and don't have the magnification my shaky old hands need hehe. I did find another post on this that died rather quickly and wasn't entirely relevant so I refrained from necro-posting it. Besides this may already be an un-announced future upgrade. Also, the new "Web-Smart" palette is 4097 colors (64x64+Blk) So moving to a larger palette would help web developers too. (I think the web safe palette is dead, actually) Anyways, Just wondering. My work requires consistent coloring across hundreds of tiny images and that's hard to do with a small palette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Check viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3462&hilit=color+palette & In the color windows click , see if this helps. Quote All creations Ash + Paint.NET [ Googlepage | deviantArt | Club PDN | PDN Fan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Check viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3462&hilit=color+palette & In the color windows click , see if this helps. Quote All creations Ash + Paint.NET [ Googlepage | deviantArt | Club PDN | PDN Fan ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFC4EVER Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 If you're doing spriting then you could always have a palette of colour on the canvas and just use the color picker (shortcut key: K) to select them whenever needed. Quote ☆★☆★Merry Christmas★☆★☆  .::.My Gallery.::.Make Gold Text!.::. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFC4EVER Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 If you're doing spriting then you could always have a palette of colour on the canvas and just use the color picker (shortcut key: K) to select them whenever needed. Quote ☆★☆★Merry Christmas★☆★☆  .::.My Gallery.::.Make Gold Text!.::. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Just as LFC4EVER said, you can create your own palette and use the color picker to select any of the colors. Here's how you could do it: 1. Make a grid on a white or transparent canvas (say 16x16 if you wish 256 colors) 2. Fill each cell with a colour of your choice using the fill tool: :PaintBucketTool: 3. Save the image. When you want to use the palette, use the "Layer >> Import from file" option to load the palette into a new layer. Click the color picker :ColorPicker: on the cell whose color you wish to select (left click = set Primary color, right click = set secondary color). Simply toggle the palette layer visibility off to view the image or when saving. Quote  ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Just as LFC4EVER said, you can create your own palette and use the color picker to select any of the colors. Here's how you could do it: 1. Make a grid on a white or transparent canvas (say 16x16 if you wish 256 colors) 2. Fill each cell with a colour of your choice using the fill tool: :PaintBucketTool: 3. Save the image. When you want to use the palette, use the "Layer >> Import from file" option to load the palette into a new layer. Click the color picker :ColorPicker: on the cell whose color you wish to select (left click = set Primary color, right click = set secondary color). Simply toggle the palette layer visibility off to view the image or when saving. Quote  ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittani Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 That works good! thanks for the tip! I'd still like to have a 256 color 16x16 palette in my workspace without having to load other images, but until it gets enough requests I can use this... thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittani Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 That works good! thanks for the tip! I'd still like to have a 256 color 16x16 palette in my workspace without having to load other images, but until it gets enough requests I can use this... thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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