darkbunny Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I'm familiar with GIF's 256-color limit, but I seem to recall an option in Photoshop that allowed one to select the specific 256 (or fewer) colors to be used. Does Paint.NET have a similar feature that I'm just not seeing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 No. This is not possible. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkbunny Posted August 9, 2007 Author Share Posted August 9, 2007 Well. bloody potato. Any chance of a plugin being written? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guspaz Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 How about non-custom but user-controlled palette? Photoshop lets you select how many colours will be in the palette, if you don't want 256. For example, maybe I'm saving a GIF image and I'm really trying to minimize filesize. Saving it as a 16-colour image goes a long way, or some other colour count. I understand that you're probably constrained by the .NET's GIF-saving routines, but surely the .NET framework lets you set how many colours are in the GIF palette? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkbunny Posted August 13, 2007 Author Share Posted August 13, 2007 Having worked on similar projects (though never in .NET), I'd guess that no custom colors means no reduced colors either. Standard dithering algorithms should work on *any* color palette, which suggests that the specific colors it's using are hard-coded into the GIF-saving system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 This isn't a .NET limitation by any means. Paint.NET does all its own palette optimization and quantization just fine. There just isn't much utility any more in having the ability to save GIF's with all manner of palette optimization and customization. Because of that we haven't taken this as a priority against all the other features we'd rather do. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkbunny Posted August 13, 2007 Author Share Posted August 13, 2007 Ah. So not impossible, just not possible in the near future. I had a programming project that would have been simplified by being able to encode information into the palette instead of adding metadata to every file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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