Counting Colours
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Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
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Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 10:58pm
Topic: Counting Colours
Posted By: Tiger/5T1N9R4Y
Subject: Counting Colours
Date Posted: 16 August 2009 at 1:18am
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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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Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 16 August 2009 at 1:47am
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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 http://www.irfanview.com/ - irfanview . It's just a small download and has many other interesting features too.
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Posted By: Tiger/5T1N9R4Y
Date Posted: 16 August 2009 at 1:51am
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Thank you. I have Photoshop, Paint shop pro and MsPaint. any of these have that? if not i'll download irfanview, right away. |
Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 16 August 2009 at 1:57am
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Tiger/5T1N9R4Y
Date Posted: 16 August 2009 at 2:17am
| Thank you :D |