Pixel Joint Forum: Counting Colours

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   I don't usually count my colours, so I don't know about this. Do I count them manually by straining my eye? does the graphics program count them by itself and I'm just too dumb to know where? etc.

Thanks in addvance 

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Tiger/5T1N9R4Y Seaman Joined: 15 August 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7	Topic: Counting Colours Posted: 16 August 2009 at 1:18am
	I don't usually count my colours, so I don't know about this. Do I count them manually by straining my eye? does the graphics program count them by itself and I'm just too dumb to know where? etc. Thanks in addvance
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skamocore Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3866	Posted: 16 August 2009 at 1:47am
	Many programs can count for you. But I assume the program you're using doesn't have a colour counting feature, therefore I recommend using irfanview. It's just a small download and has many other interesting features too.
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Tiger/5T1N9R4Y Seaman Joined: 15 August 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7	Posted: 16 August 2009 at 1:51am
	Thank you. I have Photoshop, Paint shop pro and MsPaint. any of these have that? if not i'll download irfanview, right away.
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skamocore Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3866	Posted: 16 August 2009 at 1:57am
	Both Photoshop and PSP do. I haven't used PSP in a while but in Photoshop you need to go to: Image > Mode > Index Color... and it should tell you. This only works with images with 256 colours or less though (this should be enough for all pixel art images anyway.) If you are looking at images with greater than 256 colours then irfanview is probably the best choice.
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Tiger/5T1N9R4Y Seaman Joined: 15 August 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 7	Posted: 16 August 2009 at 2:17am
	Thank you :D
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