Makes sure that solid areas of color remain solid.) The Ordered Dither Replaces the missing color with the nearest color that is in the palette (this

Next, choose what you want PSP to do with the colors that are in your imageīut won't be in your new palette. Handle any number between 2 and 256, and creates the number of colors you want Up with an unusual exact number of colorsfor example, 57 orġ73choose X Colors from the Decrease Color Depth menu. On the image, you might increase your total number of colors. If you do this conversion, Paint Shop Pro eliminates the extraĬolors, but it leaves the image in 16.7-million-color mode. Mainly for creating images for certain types of computers that can only display The color depth reduction menu includes options forģ2K (geek-speak for 32,000) and 64K (64,000). (available only when reducing to 16 colors) uses the 16 standard colors that Up of the 216 colors that all color Web displays can show. (available only if you're reducing to 256-color mode) uses a palette made Optimized Octreeĭoesn't do as good a job of picking the important colors, but it does aīetter job of matching the colors you do pick. With the Optimized Median Cut, Paint Shop Pro makesĪ good guess at which colors are most important, and then matches those colorsįairly well. When you do this, the Decrease -Color Depth dialog box shownģ.5 Reducing the color depth requires certain decisions to be made.įirst, you have to choose how Paint Shop Pro selects which colors to keep and Choose Colors, DecreaseĬolor Depth, and then select the size of palette that you want from the Select from the three options of numbers of colors.ĭecreasing the number of colors is a little trickier. Increase the number of colors, choose Colors, Increase Color Depth, and Luckily, you can change the number of colors available at any time.

In 16.7-million-color mode, and discover that you've only used ecru and

If you think you need 13 colors, you might need 130. Similarly, when you start an image, you might mis-guess how many colors you Find out how many different colors are actually in your image, choose

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