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- The Palettes Menu
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- The Palettes Menu can be accessed by right-clicking in the
- Palettes dialog, or by choosing the top item from the dialog Tab
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-palette-edit"></a>Edit Palette</h4>
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- "Edit Palette" is an alternative way of activating the <a href="ch04s13s03.html" title="13.3. Palette Editor">Palette Editor</a>: it can
- also be activated by double-clicking on a palette in the
- Palettes dialog, or by pressing the "Edit Palette" button at the
- bottom of the dialog.
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- "New Palette" creates a new, untitled palette, initially
- containing no color entries, and pops up the Palette Editor so
- that you can add colors to the palette. The result will
- automatically be saved in your personal
- <tt class="filename">palettes</tt> folder when you quit GIMP, so it
- will be available from the Palettes dialog in future sessions.
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- The Import Palette dialog
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- "Import Palette" allows you to create a new palette from the
- colors in a gradient or image. Choosing it brings up the
- "Import Palette" dialog, which gives you the following options:
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- <p><b>Select Source. </b>
- You can import a palette either from any of GIMP's gradients
- (choosing one from the adjoining menu), or from any of the
- currently open images (chosen from the adjoining menu). In
- GIMP 2.2, you can also import a RIFF palette file (with
- extension <tt class="filename">.pal</tt>), of the type used by
- several Microsoft Windows applications.
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- <li>
- <p><b>Palette name. </b>
- You can give a name to the new palette here. If the name you
- choose is already used by an existing palette, a unique name
- will be formed by appending a number (e. g., "#1").
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p><b>Number of colors. </b>
- Here you specify the number of colors in the palette. The
- default is 256, chosen for three reasons: (1) every gradient
- contains 256 distinct colors; (2) GIF files can use a maximum
- of 256 colors; (3) GIMP indexed images can contain a maximum
- of 256 distinct colors. You can use any number you like
- here, though: GIMP will try to create a palette by spacing
- the specified number of colors even across the color range of
- the gradient or image.
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- </li>
- <li>
- <p><b>Columns. </b>
- Here you specify the number of columns for the palette. This
- only affects the way the palette is displayed, and has no
- effect on the way the palette is used.
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- <li>
- <p><b>Interval. </b>
- XXX I have no idea what this is.
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- The imported palette will be added to the Palettes dialog, and
- automatically saved in your personal
- <tt class="filename">palettes</tt> folder when you quit GIMP, so it
- will be available in future sessions.
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- <p>
- "Duplicate Palette" creates a new palette by copying the palette
- that is currently selected, and brings up a Palette Editor so
- that you can alter the palette. The result will
- automatically be saved in your personal
- <tt class="filename">palettes</tt> folder when you quit GIMP, so it
- will be available from the Palettes dialog in future sessions.
- </p>
- </div>
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-palette-merge"></a>Merge Palettes</h4>
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- </div>
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- <p>
- Currently this operation is not implemented, and the menu entry
- will always be insensitive.
- </p>
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- <h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-palette-delete"></a>Delete Palette</h4>
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- "Delete Palette" removes the palette from the Palettes dialog,
- and deletes the disk file in which it is stored. Before it
- acts, it asks you confirm that you really want to do these
- things. Note that you cannot remove any of the palettes that
- are supplied with GIMP, only palettes you have added yourself.
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- "Refresh Palettes" rescans all of the folders in your palette
- search path, and adds any newly discovered palettes to the list
- in the Palettes dialog. This may be useful if you obtain
- palette files from some external source, copy them into one of
- your palettes folders, and want to make them available during
- the current session.
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