Editor that will let me reorder a 256 c palette
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Topic: Editor that will let me reorder a 256 c palette
Posted By: dada78641
Subject: Editor that will let me reorder a 256 c palette
Date Posted: 03 November 2016 at 12:50pm
Hi there! I'm doing some work on a DOS-style space shooter. Since DOS has a limited palette of 256 colors, I need to be able to set my images to specific entries (e.g. ensuring that the transparent color is entry 0, skipping the colors I've reserved for the UI, etc)
Photoshop won't really let me do it very easily: http://i.imgur.com/hEHIYoS.png
Does anyone know of a way to do this with Photoshop or another tool I should try?
Thanks for any help :)
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Posted By: yrizoud
Date Posted: 04 November 2016 at 9:02am
"DOS-style space shooter" means Tyrian, I can only wish you similar success :)
Photoshop is really not designed to work in 256 colors, it's pretty evident as soon as you have several images which need to share a common palette.
You should rather use any drawing program which provides an indexed colors mode. They typically give you a function to swap two colors while swapping the relevant pixels at the same time : The image looks unchanged, and it lets you re-order the palette as you want. In grafx2 for example it's the X-Swap button in the PALette screen.
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