i'm in the process of making my own palette. i'm taking real photos of nature and using gimp to pull colors from them to make my palette. this way i hope to make my work better. i think it will give me more real colors to work with, and i hope to avoid blending colors on my pictures to get the color i want, which i feel causes way to much of a blur....this way my work will not be so blurry and therefore makes my work better. here is what i have so far.



JUST THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE MY IDEA......

This is a good idea. I would just point out that is possible to have GIMP automatically create a palette from the colors in an image (or at least a subset of them).

First open your Palette Dialog (if it is not already open) using "Windows->Dockable Dialogs->Palettes".

Next choose the "Import palette..." command from the Palette menu (accessible by clicking on the triangle-in-a-box button in the upper-right corner of the dialog).



In the Import Palette dialog that appears, specify the image from which you want the colors taken as your Source and any other options available (palette name, number of colors, etc).



Of course, you sacrifice much of the control you have with selecting the colors manually.

Yes and another little secret about the GPL extension is that you can also copy all of Gimps palettes to Inkscape and visa versa.
As GPL is the native format for both programs.

Good timing. I was trying to find how to do that, so thanks for sparing me the search:) However, there is slightly simpler way to access "Import palette": just right-click on the list of palettes (no need for the "triangle-in-a-box").