Of course the focus is on working in fullcolour mode, but there is enough material which is offered, or can be represented in a lower resolution.
The first lower step means 8 bits, so a maximum of 256 different colours.
Each colour is represented by values of Red - Green - Blue, each value with a range of 0-255.
Such a palette can be easily saved as a simple ascii file with on each line the three RGB values.
0 0 0
24 0 8
56 16 24
64 16 24
80 24 32
etc.
IrfanView does this too, when 'exporting a palette'. It writes a *.PAL file.
This means, that it's possible to build a library of palettes.
One could open pic1 and import the .pal-file of pic2.
So the palette can be a tool of modulation of the picture, like the Swap Colors option.
Not by controlling some sliders, but as a switch.
A first, random, collection of 122 palettes can be found here
IrfanView is following the PSP format when writing a .PAL file, which means an extra header on top
of the list of values:
JASC-PAL
0100
256
Other applications like fractal generators do save such a palette value list as well, often as a .MAP extension.
But without this extra header. I've made a MAP2PAL batch converter.
Some more sets : Pals 1 and Pals 2
For the survey, make the IV subdirectory 'palettes' to extract the pal-sets to.
The first lower step means 8 bits, so a maximum of 256 different colours.
Each colour is represented by values of Red - Green - Blue, each value with a range of 0-255.
Such a palette can be easily saved as a simple ascii file with on each line the three RGB values.
0 0 0
24 0 8
56 16 24
64 16 24
80 24 32
etc.
IrfanView does this too, when 'exporting a palette'. It writes a *.PAL file.
This means, that it's possible to build a library of palettes.
One could open pic1 and import the .pal-file of pic2.
So the palette can be a tool of modulation of the picture, like the Swap Colors option.
Not by controlling some sliders, but as a switch.
A first, random, collection of 122 palettes can be found here
IrfanView is following the PSP format when writing a .PAL file, which means an extra header on top
of the list of values:
JASC-PAL
0100
256
Other applications like fractal generators do save such a palette value list as well, often as a .MAP extension.
But without this extra header. I've made a MAP2PAL batch converter.
Some more sets : Pals 1 and Pals 2
For the survey, make the IV subdirectory 'palettes' to extract the pal-sets to.
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