Choosing colors for paletted images
Paletted images are images that have a color depth between 2 and 256 colors. With paletted images, you must choose foreground and background colors from the Materials palette rather than from the Color Picker.
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Edit workspace
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On the Materials palette, do one of the following:
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To choose the foreground color, click the Foreground and Stroke
Color box.
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To choose the background color, click the Background and Fill
Color box.
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Clicking a color box opens the Color dialog box and displays the palette. |
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In the Sort order drop-list, select the way in which the colors are
sorted:
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Palette — sorts by order of colors in the palette
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Hue — sorts by color
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Luminance — sorts by lightness
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Click a color.
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The color’s index number within the palette, the color value (RGB or HSL), and the HTML code are displayed. |
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Click OK.
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To ensure that only the colors available for paletted images are
displayed in the Materials palette, the Show document palette
option must be enabled. Choose File  Preferences General
Program Preferences, click Palettes in the list, and choose the
Show Document Palette option. For more information, see
Setting Display and Caching preferences.
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You can also choose a color by clicking the Foreground and
Stroke Properties box, the Background and Fill Properties box to
open the Material Properties dialog box, then clicking the Color
tab to display the palette.
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