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How to use color palette (swatch) onto an image?


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Hello

I'm using Affinity Photo and want to use a predefined color palette (swatch?) onto some images. My color palette has 128 colors. So if I load an image with like 1000 colors I would like to scale it down to that 128 predefined colors. If that is possible how can I do that?

Thank you in advance!

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16 minutes ago, John Smith123 said:

Hello

I'm using Affinity Photo and want to use a predefined color palette (swatch?) onto some images. My color palette has 128 colors. So if I load an image with like 1000 colors I would like to scale it down to that 128 predefined colors. If that is possible how can I do that?

Thank you in advance!

Sounds like you might have to convert to a file type like Gif or PNG for a limited colour range... can remember if Desktop version of Photo has an export for web option like Photoshop does, but that might be a route to reducing the colour range

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Thank you and no, not GIF. I want to convert some images for a retro computer with a given color palette. That system allows 128 colors only. That means the colors are precisely given that might not be ensured on exporting it (I assume). The export can be a PNG file.

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If I understand what you're wanting to do, this would require Photo to have an option for indexing colours. Now it has an option to create a palette based on the loaded document or you can specify an image to base the palette off. However we don't have an option to convert a RGB bitmap into indexed colour so that a custom palette can be loaded, see this suggestion feedback thread about the issue.

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