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<h3 class="title"><a id="gimp-palette-editor-dialog"></a>13.3. Palette Editor</h3>
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The Palette Editor is used mainly for two purposes: first, for
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setting GIMP's foreground or background colors (as shown in the
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Color Area of the Toolbox) to selected colors from the palette;
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second, for modifying the palette. You can activate the Palette
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Editor for any palette in the Palettes dialog, but you can only
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modify palettes that you have created yourself, not the palettes
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that are supplied when you install GIMP. (You can, however,
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duplicate any palette and then edit the newly created copy.) If
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you modify a palette, the results of your work will automatically
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be saved when you exit from GIMP.
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The Palette Editor is only accessible from the Palettes dialog:
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you can activate it by double-clicking on a palette, or by
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pressing the "Edit Palette" button at the bottom, or by choosing
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"Edit Palette" from the Palettes Menu.
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If you click on a color box in the palette display, GIMP's
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foreground color will be set to the selected color: you can see
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this in the Color Area of the Toolbox. If you hold down the
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Ctrl key while clicking, GIMP's background color will be set to
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Double-clicking on a color not only sets the foreground, it also
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brings up a color editor that allows you to modify the selected
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palette entry. (This only happens if the palette is one you are
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allowed to modify: that is, one you have added to GIMP
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Right-clicking in the palette display area brings up the Palette
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Editor menu. It's functions are mainly the same as
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those of the buttons at the bottom of the dialog.
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Below the palette display area, at the left, appears a text
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entry area that shows the name of the selected color (or
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"Unnamed" if it does not have one). This information has no
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functional significance, and is present only to serve you as a
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To the right of the name entry is a spinbutton that allows you
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to set the number of columns used to display the palette. This
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only affects the display, not how the palette works. If the
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value is set to 0, a default will be used.
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At the bottom of the dialog are a set of buttons, which mostly
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match the entries in the Palette Editor menu, accessible by
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right-clicking in the palette display area. Here are the
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This button causes the palette to be saved in your personal
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<tt class="filename">palettes</tt> folder. It would be saved
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automatically when GIMP exits in any case, but you might want
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to use this button if you are concerned that GIMP might crash
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This operation has not yet been implemented.
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<p><b>Edit Color. </b>
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Pops up a color editor allowing you to alter the color. If
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the palette is one you aren't allowed to alter, this button
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<p><b>New Color from FG. </b>
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Adds a new entry to the palette, with color taken from GIMP's
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foreground color, as shown in the Color Area of the Toolbox.
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If you hold down the Ctrl key when pressing this button, the
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new color will be taken from GIMP's background instead. If
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the palette is one you aren't allowed to alter, this button
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<p><b>Delete Color. </b>
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Removes the selected color entry from the palette. If the
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palette is one you aren't allowed to alter, this button will
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Expands the palette display vertically.
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Shrinks the palette display vertically.
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Fits the vertical scale of the palette display to the size of
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