Counting colors
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Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 10:58pm
Topic: Counting colors
Posted By: SuperPanda
Subject: Counting colors
Date Posted: 05 September 2009 at 8:01am
| Hi i was just wondering how you count colors. Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks |
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 06 September 2009 at 7:29am
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Having a palette somewhere in the corner would help. Otherwise I just look very carefully and start counting. Pixel art is about patience, in every aspect. -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 06 September 2009 at 7:57am
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I go to photoshop, click to convert the image to indexed colors, and it says how many colors it has. ------------- |
Posted By: IQbrew
Date Posted: 06 September 2009 at 11:36am
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I found a great color counter once, but can never seem to find it again when I google. Good thing it's bookmarked. http://dpmm.110mb.com/CKinesis/ColorCounter.html - ColorCounter You may load an image from your comp, or paste an image into it. It will allow you to create a customized pallet out of the image, in addition to telling you how many colors it has. About 15 kilobytes, I think it's the best color counter out there. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 September 2009 at 9:50am
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Originally posted by lucas_irineu I go to photoshop, click to convert the image to indexed colors, and it says how many colors it has. Easier than that is to make a quick 'save for web' and just look at the color panel on the lower right-hand side. No need to save just look at the count. This way you don't have any file conversions until ready for final file. *I personally hand count and keep a color layer :| ------------- |
Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 09 September 2009 at 11:32am
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Well, I can just cancel before it actually converts the image.
Keeping a layer for each color sounds complicated. Having to switch layers to fix every mistake and all. |
Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 09 September 2009 at 12:35pm
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You could also just use a pixel art app with proper indexed palette support, like http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/ - GrafX2 . ------------- |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 September 2009 at 4:22pm
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Originally posted by lucas_irineu Well, I can just cancel before it actually converts the image.  ------------- |
Posted By: SuperPanda
Date Posted: 14 September 2009 at 9:16am
| thanks for your help guys. I found a a program called "color counter" works good =) |
Posted By: AngelOTG
Date Posted: 14 September 2009 at 6:47pm
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Originally posted by IQbrew I found a great color counter once, but can never seem to find it again when I google. Good thing it's bookmarked. http://dpmm.110mb.com/CKinesis/ColorCounter.html - ColorCounter Originally posted by SuperPanda I found a a program called "color counter" Orly? Would've never guessed. :P |
Posted By: DeProgrammer
Date Posted: 18 September 2009 at 10:44am
I made that program. It's in the PixelJoint links, and if you Google for "Color Counter" it's apparently the fourth result.  So thanks for the compliment, IQbrew! |
Posted By: danimations
Date Posted: 29 October 2009 at 7:12pm
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Cute little program... thanks for sharing!
------------- Visit http://www.danimations.com.au - danimations website |