All images are composed of colors from a color palette. The palette may contain as few as 2 colors and as many as 16 million. You can edit the color palette of many of the lower quality image types; images with up to 256 colors. You can save and apply the palette to other images. The Highcolor and Truecolor images palettes can not be modified.
To edit/create a color palette:
Do one of the following:
Click the
button.
Click Color | Edit Palette.
Click the color in the palette you want to change.
Select a color from the Color Editor.
Do one of the following:
Click OK to apply the palette.
Click Save As, type a name for the palette, and click OK.
Click OK to apply the modified palette.
To apply a color palette to an image:
Do one of the following:
Click the
button.
Click Color | Edit Palette.
Do one of the following:
Select a .pal file from the Load/Save Palette drop-down list.
Click Browse and select the .pal file. Click OK.
(Optional) Clear the Dither to new palette option.
Click Ok.
FotoCanvas creates a new image with the colors from the palette. If the image is dithered, FotoCanvas attempts to use the colors to create the best looking image. If the image is not dithered, FotoCanvas replaces the color in the old palette with the matching color from the new palette.