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An HVS MultiPalette is the result of reducing an arbitrary set of RGB images to a single palette. It is conceptually similar to a Debabelizer SuperPalette but superior in quality because of the underlying HVS technology. Creating an HVS MultiPalette is a four step process.
The first step begins by setting all the adaptive color reduction parameters such as Color Depth, Shading, and Thresholding, then choosing HVS Multi from the Palette Menu. When this is done the Color Reduction Dialog disappears and is replaced by the HVS MultiPalette Options Dialog. Selecting continue will analyze the current image and return you to Photoshop. All remaining images can be analyzed by using Command-F or batch mode from Photoshop.
After all images have been analyzed, choose HVS ColorGIF (not using Control-F) from Photoshop's filter menu. This will bring up a dialog displaying how many images have been analyzed. Selecting No More Images will change the dialog to the Factor Images Dialog, where the user can assign a weight to each of the images. Again, once the first has been processed, the rest can be batched. The weight is set to 1 for each image unless changed manually.
The third pass can be completed without intervention.
The images in the fourth pass can be batched to quickly reduce each original image to an RGB image containing no more than the requested number of colors, or the HVS ColorGIF dialog can be used to adjust Dither Intensity and export to GIF.