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A <span class="emphasis"><em>palette</em></span> is a set of discrete colors, in no
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The Palettes dialog is used to select a palette, by clicking on
it in a list or grid view. A few dozen more or
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easily add new palettes of your own. The Palettes dialog also
give you access to several operations for creating new palettes or
manipulating the ones that already exist.
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The Palettes dialog is not the same thing as the <a href="ch04s05.html" title="5. Indexed Palette dialog">Index Palette
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indexed images.
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The Palettes dialog is a dockable dialog; see the section on <a href="ch02s03s04.html" title="3.4. Dialogs and Docking">Dialogs and Docking</a> for help on
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In the Tab menu, you can choose between <span class="guimenuitem">View as
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In Grid mode, the palettes are laid out in a spectacular
rectangular array, making it easy to see many at once and find
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Clicking on a palette in the dialog makes it GIMP's active
palette. This does not really have any significance, though.
Double-clicking on a palette brings up the <a href="ch04s13s03.html" title="13.3. Palette Editor">Palette Editor</a>, which
allows you to set GIMP's foreground or background colors by
clicking on colors in the palette display.
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Double-clicking on a palette <span class="emphasis"><em>name</em></span> (in List
View mode) lets you to edit the name. Note that you are only
allowed to change the names of palettes that you have added
yourself, not those that are supplied with GIMP. If you edit a
name that you are not allowed to change, it will revert back to
its previous value as soon as you hit return or move the pointer
focus elsewhere.
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Right-clicking in the palette display area brings up the
Palettes Menu, described in the next section. At the bottom of
the dialog are a set of buttons, whose function all duplicate
those of entries in the Palettes Menu:
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<p><b>Edit Palette. </b>
This button brings up the <a href="ch04s13s03.html" title="13.3. Palette Editor">Palette Editor</a>.
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<p><b>New Palette. </b>
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