On 03/25/04 22:21, Lyndel McGee said...
You can't load palettes in Paint. Look at some
other tools such as PaintShop Pro (retail), PhotoShop
(retail but expensive) or a tool with a rather
low learning curve such as LViewPro (available
via shareware). Do a google search. I believe
LViewPro does support dithering (reducing # of
colors of) an image down to a predefined palette
(A palette is nothing more than a 1x1 pixel bitmap
with a 256 color palette.
Ernie,
Sorry for so much confusion.
Refer to the first sentence of my first post on this thread. Steve is correct. Use something other than MSPaint as there is absolutely no way to use another bitmap to specify entries contained in a palette.
I went into detail as to how to build a palette presuming that you would read the first sentence and abandon MSPaint. The 1x1 bitmap you build can be used easily in PaintShopPro 7 or the latest version 8(you may be able to order "upgrade" directly from
www.jasc.com for a discount.)
If I remember correctly, LViewPro (shareware) also supports loading palettes.
Best of Luck,
Lyndel
