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I have an image and from it I want to create a new palette. But PSP Help isn't much and doesn't much. The menu choice I want might say "from the selected image, create a new palette," but that choice doesn't exist.
How can I create a brand-new palette from the image?
Thanks!
I don't know about PSP x7 but in x8 if you downsample the image to say 16 colours, then click the HSL Map option in the Materials palette, it gives you the 16 colours, you can then dropper each one and add to a created palette.
Might take a bit of time if you downsample to 256 colours, though!
Although this question ought to be migrated (it was at photo.stackexchange.com originally), I'll provide an answer here:
In order to create a pallette from an image, the image needs to have a color pallette to begin with -- you can't directly create a pallette from a full-color image. You'll first need to reduce the color depth to 8-bit (256 colors) or lower. You can fiddle around in the settings for the depth reduction, but I usually find optimized octree and nearest color give me something close to the original (with some posterization, of course). You might find that optimized median cut gives a better rendition for some pictures, but opting for dithering rarely gives you quite the pallette you want -- the target colors are often achieved by dithering rather than by direct rendering.
Once you have reduced the image from full-color to a palletted image, you should be able to save the pallette and use it on other images (the option should be available under the Image menu).
