TR's Color Reducer (and palette maker) 2014-08-01

[TechnoRobbo]

TechnoRobbo's Color Reducer

(and palette maker)

v1.0.2

 

Scale down the color count in your image.

Greatly reduce file sizes.

 Use the selection to limit the area modified,

If reduced to less than 1000 Colors you can edit the color table.

If 96 colors or less you can save a Custom Palette!!!

 

Menu: Effect -> Color

 

version 1.02 small UI fix

version 1.01 includes brightness control and preview for Plugin Browser

 

 

Plugin was originally written to reduce the size of the help file in The Plugin Browser.

 

 

The Plugin

TRsColorReducer.zip

 

The VS Source Code for Programmers

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnhhfatjqgvoepk/TRsColorReducerSrc.zip?dl=0

[Red ochre]

This is great! (even runs on Pdn 3.5.11)
Love the superquick progress-bar through the image and the ability to save palettes will be useful.

As the colours are reduced the tones tend to get darker - presumably integers rounding down - or is it just my perception?
If that is the case perhaps you could consider an option or control to bias the tone of the new colours?

Good work - thanks!

[TechnoRobbo]

 

 

As the colours are reduced the tones tend to get darker - presumably integers rounding down - or is it just my perception? 

if you play with the divider (95 to 96 to 94) you'll see it re-rounds and re-interprets the shading.

 

Thanks Red

[DrewDale]

Nice work TR. Thanks

[TechnoRobbo]

Thanks DD

[nitenurse79]

This is really good for making custom palettes. Thank you TechnoRobbo  

[TechnoRobbo]

Your Welcome NiteNurse,

 

For the curious programmers out there I just posted the VS source code 

[TechnoRobbo]

 

 

As the colours are reduced the tones tend to get darker - presumably integers rounding down - or is it just my perception? 

If that is the case perhaps you could consider an option or control to bias the tone of the new colours?

Ask and you shall receive Red

 

version 1.01 includes brightness control and preview for Plugin Browser

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Can I have a BMW then?

[TechnoRobbo]

 

 

Can I have a BMW then?

         

[mottoman]

A very useful plugin, thank you TR. 

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Found a little UI rendering issue.  The smaller lower slider is partially obscured by the text box above.

 

[TechnoRobbo]

Thanks  Ego, I had to double up on reading glasses to see it. Half of the slider was covered.

 

No doubt about it , I gotta get another pair of glasses.

[ThanosMassias]

Dear TR thanks for all your hard work.

 

I noticed that pallete files created with this plugin contain line breaks that break long comment lines:

 

; paint.net Palette File
; Lines that start with a semicolon are comments
; Colors are written as 8-digit hexadecimal numbers: aarrggbb
; For example, this would specify green: FF00FF00
; The alpha ('aa') value specifies how transparent a color is. FF is fully

opaque, 00 is fully transparent.
; A palette must consist of ninety six (96) colors. If there are less than

this, the remaining color
; slots will be set to white (FFFFFFFF). If there are more, then the remaining

colors will be ignored.
FFFCFCFC
FFBDBDBD
FF7E7E7E

[Ego Eram Reputo]

TechnoRobbo hasn't been on the forum for a few months. Your best bet is to accept that, for now, you need to manually edit the palette.

[ThanosMassias]

Thanks. Sorry to hear TechnoRobbo hasn't been on the forum lately - I hope that won't last for long.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Me too! His input here is sorely missed