alien.png Extra's -- The palette editor
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Another neat feature of the image viewer is the palette editor. The palette editor can be used to create your OWN palette. To get to this palette editor, drop down the arrow of the palette tool button on the tool bar of the image viewer and select 'Custom palette (palette editor)'. If you click this item, you'll be warped to the dialog shown in figure 41. The palette editor can also be called by the main menu of CA3 (Image viewer item).



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Figure 41. The palette editor

Here you see the oh so great palette editor. It's really simple. The 16 boxes you see are the current colors (as MSX has 16 colors). Move the mouse over one of them and the cursor will turn into a hand point cursor. When you click it, the current index (the color you will be editing) will be set to THAT color. You can verify that by looking at the most left box of the four little boxes in the upper right corner of the dialog window. To change the red, green and blue intensity of the color, left or right click on one of the three most right boxes (which show the current intensity of that specific color). Left to increase the intensity and Right to decrease it. If the intensity would exceed it bounds (bounds are 0 through 7), it will be clipped to the (respectively) highest (7) or lowest (0) intensity.

Copy from image
Copies the palette data from the current image. In this way you can easily change the palette according to the original palette. The palette editor will always start with the default MSX palette.

OK

Applies changes and closes the dialog (see Apply)

Cancel

Closes the window without saving the palette information.

Apply

Sets the image palette to the palette you just edited.