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Editing color palettes
I'm never stuck with any bunch of lousy colors that my color reduction foisted off on me.

Even a scrawny little 2 color job
can be transformed into anything
from my 16.7 million color pool.
Yeah, it may default to black & white
but I'm doing teal & peach

First we reduce the color depth on the image. We can only edit palettes
that have been reduced to 256 colors or less
When we reduce colors manually (Menu> colors> Decrease color depth)
we can edit palette right then & there.
When we reduce by GIF EXPORT the original image remains unchanged &
we need to open our freshly saved Gif to edit its palette.

Rightclick & download this screen captured image
Duplicate this image> Menu> Window> Duplicate
Menu> colors> Reduce Color Depth> choose 16
Choose Windows /Nearest Color
Seriously ugly colors will hop on your newly reduced image.

Let's edit those colors
Menu> Colors> Edit Palette
With this box open run your mouse over to the ugly green on your newly reduced image to highlight that color in the edit box.
Double clicking that highlighted swatch calls up your 16 mil colors.
We can now select any color from this box, say OKAY to replace any undesirable color with our new color choices. But don't do that.

Shortcut-hijack those original colors right off that first image.

Bypass the Color Box, make a beeline with your mouse straight over to original image & Colorpick-grab the original color. Clicking on the original color auto-inserts into the color box. Say okay to the color box. That butt-ugly pea green titlebar is back to it's original color.

Get creative with a 16+ mil palette or just hijack some color themes
& layouts from other opened images.


Crop rather than resize large gifs whenever possible. Solid drop shadows offer less transparency hassles & smaller files.	Successfully presenting to a world of different eyeballs, connections, monitors & browsers, means take time to make the best compromises and choices for our web formats and settings. A good image is only the beginning. That job ain't done till she's SAVED in a way that won't kill off visitors with slow downloads.

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