Changing image to paletted

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Peter_S_Vogel
Feb 26, 2004
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How do I change a picture to 256 colour palette? (Photoshop CS Win) The help file seems to suggest selecting Windows System palette, but it doesn’t say where to find this, nor does it say that this willconvert an existing image to 256 colors.

Also, how do I set or determine the number of pixels X,Y for my image?

Thanks

Peter
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JasonSmith
Feb 26, 2004
Image>Mode>index color?
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Don_McCahill
Feb 26, 2004
Your second question: use image>image size
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Peter_S_Vogel
Feb 26, 2004
Thanks. Image size now understood.

Index color is still a bit of a mystery.

I find the help file very frustrating in that it tells me what to use by not how I find it in the maze of menus.

When I do a search for Index Color I find the following:

Color inclusion and transparency
To specify colors to be included in the indexed color table or to specify transparency in the image, choose from the following options:
Forced… etc

but it doesn’t tell me where to find the indexed color table!!!

Am I missing some crucial piece of newbie knowledge about using Photoshop’s Help?
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sandy_johnson
Feb 26, 2004
Help sucks. You’d do better with a copy of the Photoshop Bible.
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JasonSmith
Feb 26, 2004
convert to index color, then go to mode>color table.

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