Palette Manager Dialog Box

Use this dialog box to manipulate individual colors and entire palettes for 8-bit images.

Palette menu

Import

Imports a saved palette (*.pf).

Export

Displays the Export Palette dialog box, where you specify a name and save your changes to the current palette.

Information

Displays information about the current palette.

View menu

Show Unused

Displays or hides the “X” marks that indicate which colors in the palette are unused.

Show Transparent

Displays or hides the “+” marks that indicate which colors in the palette are transparent.

RGB

Displays the Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) values on the status bar for the selected color.

HSL

Displays the Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity (HSL) values on the status bar for the selected color.

Sort By

Specifies a sorting method for the color table and list view.

Select Color

Specifies a color (or colors) directly from the image.

Color Table

Specifies colors in the selection set. The color table is represented as a 32X8 grid of colors. You can select colors by clicking directly, or clicking and dragging. You can also right-click a selected color, then click Clear Selection to remove the current colors from the selection set, or click Invert Selection to select everything except the color you clicked.

Change

Replaces the selected color with a new color.

Combine

Condenses the selected colors into a single color.

Set Transparent

Specifies the selected color as transparent.

Compress

Removes duplicate entries from the palette. All unused entries that result from a compress operation are assigned a RGB value of 0,0,0.

Convert To Color

Converts a grayscale image to an image with a palette that consists of gray tones.

Reset

Restores the palette to the original state or to the state after the last Apply.

List View

Displays a table in which you can view and sort each color entry in the palette. Click on a column heading to sort the table by that column. Click again to reverse the sort order. Right-click on a column heading, then click the column names to show or hide the corresponding columns.

Image Transparency

Specifies whether the background transparency property is on or off in the image.

Apply

Saves your changes to the image palette without exiting the Palette Manager dialog box.