Selecting colors

You select colors directly in the image or in the Color Table panel to make changes to the colors.

To select a color from the original or optimized image:

1 Select the eyedropper tool () in the Save For Web dialog box.

2 Click a color in the image. A white border appears around that color in the Color Table panel.

To select a color directly in the Color Table panel/palette:

Click the color in the Color Table panel.

To select a contiguous group of colors, press Shift and click another color. All colors in the rows between the first and second selected colors are selected.

To select a discontiguous group of colors, press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and click each color that you want to select.

To select all colors:

Choose Select All Colors from the Color Table panel menu.

To select all Web-safe colors in the image:

Choose Select All Web Safe Colors from the Color Table panel menu.

Note: The optimized image must contain at least one Web-safe color in order to select Web-safe colors.

To select all non-Web-safe colors in the image:

Choose Select All Non-Web Safe Colors from the Color Table panel menu.

Note: The optimized image must contain at least one non-Web-safe color in order to select non-Web-safe colors.

To deselect all colors:

Choose Deselect All Colors from the Color Table panel menu.

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