The Color Palette

 

You can choose a color with the left mouse button. There are two different palettes. One for 16 and one for 256 colors. This distinction is important for the storage of an icon. If the 256 color palette is used the icon will be saved as a 256 color icon, otherwise as a 16 color icon. The difference is that a 256 color icon looks much better but you can only view it in high- or truecolor mode. In the 256 color mode of Windows you can only use the 16 color palette!
Attention: If you change from the 256 color palette to the 16 color palette, all colors that are not standard colors (black, blue, green, cyan, red, violet, yellow, white, gray, light blue, light green, light cyan, light red, light violet, light yellow and light white) will be lost (don't panic, of course you can undo this...)!

On the bottom of the palette are two buttons. One to save (Save Pal) the current palette and one to load (Load Pal) a saved palette. The starting palette is called 'STANDARD.PAL' and is located in the same directory as 'ICONEDIT.EXE'.

On the right side of the palette are three sliders with which you can define your own colors. If you click on one of the captions (red, green, blue) the standard Windows color dialog appears.

 

Beneath these sliders a button with the caption 'Gradation' is located. With this button you can easily create color gradations.

Proceeding:

  1. Click on the first color on the palette which you want to use for the gradation

  2. Press the button 'Gradation' (now it looks depressed; with another click on this button you can cancel the process)

  3. Click on the last color of the gradation (the colors are arranged in columns so they are ordered from top to bottom, left to right)

The colors between the starting and the endpoint are now building a fluent gradation