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The Palettes Menu
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The Palettes Menu can be accessed by right-clicking in the
Palettes dialog, or by choosing the top item from the dialog Tab
menu.
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"Edit Palette" is an alternative way of activating the <a href="ch04s13s03.html" title="13.3. Palette Editor">Palette Editor</a>: it can
also be activated by double-clicking on a palette in the
Palettes dialog, or by pressing the "Edit Palette" button at the
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"New Palette" creates a new, untitled palette, initially
containing no color entries, and pops up the Palette Editor so
that you can add colors to the palette. The result will
automatically be saved in your personal
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will be available from the Palettes dialog in future sessions.
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The Import Palette dialog
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"Import Palette" allows you to create a new palette from the
colors in a gradient or image. Choosing it brings up the
"Import Palette" dialog, which gives you the following options:
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<p><b>Select Source. </b>
You can import a palette either from any of GIMP's gradients
(choosing one from the adjoining menu), or from any of the
currently open images (chosen from the adjoining menu). In
GIMP 2.2, you can also import a RIFF palette file (with
extension <tt class="filename">.pal</tt>), of the type used by
several Microsoft Windows applications.
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<p><b>Palette name. </b>
You can give a name to the new palette here. If the name you
choose is already used by an existing palette, a unique name
will be formed by appending a number (e. g., "#1").
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<p><b>Number of colors. </b>
Here you specify the number of colors in the palette. The
default is 256, chosen for three reasons: (1) every gradient
contains 256 distinct colors; (2) GIF files can use a maximum
of 256 colors; (3) GIMP indexed images can contain a maximum
of 256 distinct colors. You can use any number you like
here, though: GIMP will try to create a palette by spacing
the specified number of colors even across the color range of
the gradient or image.
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<p><b>Columns. </b>
Here you specify the number of columns for the palette. This
only affects the way the palette is displayed, and has no
effect on the way the palette is used.
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<p><b>Interval. </b>
XXX I have no idea what this is.
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The imported palette will be added to the Palettes dialog, and
automatically saved in your personal
<tt class="filename">palettes</tt> folder when you quit GIMP, so it
will be available in future sessions.
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"Duplicate Palette" creates a new palette by copying the palette
that is currently selected, and brings up a Palette Editor so
that you can alter the palette. The result will
automatically be saved in your personal
<tt class="filename">palettes</tt> folder when you quit GIMP, so it
will be available from the Palettes dialog in future sessions.
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Currently this operation is not implemented, and the menu entry
will always be insensitive.
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"Delete Palette" removes the palette from the Palettes dialog,
and deletes the disk file in which it is stored. Before it
acts, it asks you confirm that you really want to do these
things. Note that you cannot remove any of the palettes that
are supplied with GIMP, only palettes you have added yourself.
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"Refresh Palettes" rescans all of the folders in your palette
search path, and adds any newly discovered palettes to the list
in the Palettes dialog. This may be useful if you obtain
palette files from some external source, copy them into one of
your palettes folders, and want to make them available during
the current session.
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