Choosing palette

Deblk · **Joined:** Dec 22, 2011 **Posts:** 399

trandoductin wrote:

Deblk wrote:

trandoductin wrote:

Do you mean something like this?
take a source image like this color or black and white.
[ Image ]
and a palette image (here 8 colors that has black white and some yellowish browns).
[ Image ]
and get a result like this?
[ Image ]

Yes, exactly what I am looking for

Then it's really simple.
First draw your palette colors, or open image with your desired palette.
Count number of colors (call this N).
The Image->Mode->Indexed then click on Generate optimum palette and enter N as maximum number of colors.
Then just copy paste in your desired image (or Open it as layer)...
because the Mode is indexed, it'll force your pasted image (or opened as layer) to match the indexed mode.

Thanks....how did you draw your palette? Did you use colormap?

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Instead of using a palette, you can also use (after grayscale): Color>Map>Gradient map, and have a gradient made of the necessary colors (with or without hard transitions). One advantage of the technique is that you can easily adjust the mapping with widening/narrowing segments in the gradient:

trandoductin · **Posted:** Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:40 am **(#23)**

Deblk wrote:

Thanks....how did you draw your palette? Did you use colormap?

I just manually drew them, like i selected a rectangle area and then selected a color and then dragged it into area. I don't know how to properly use colormap (at least i don't think i do)

trandoductin · **Posted:** Sat Mar 05, 2016 11:45 am **(#24)**

ofnuts wrote:

Instead of using a palette, you can also use (after grayscale): Color>Map>Gradient map, and have a gradient made of the necessary colors (with or without hard transitions). One advantage of the technique is that you can easily adjust the mapping with widening/narrowing segments in the gradient:

Wow, that looks advanced and powerful.

Deblk · **Joined:** Dec 22, 2011 **Posts:** 399

trandoductin wrote:

ofnuts wrote:

Instead of using a palette, you can also use (after grayscale): Color>Map>Gradient map, and have a gradient made of the necessary colors (with or without hard transitions). One advantage of the technique is that you can easily adjust the mapping with widening/narrowing segments in the gradient:

Wow, that looks advanced and powerful.

*Cough* so much you can do, sadly a lot goes over my head

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

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Deblk · **Joined:** Dec 22, 2011 **Posts:** 399

ofnuts wrote:

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Thanks, will defo try this out

trandoductin · **Posted:** Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:11 pm **(#28)**

I just watched classic queen on https://www.twitch.tv/classic_queen
and she says she works (cross stitching) of black and white square pattern with symbols representing the colors or something like that which is created by WinStitch i think.
I wonder if a script in GIMP to convert an image (indexed mode). To another image that's filled with symbols like using letters (26) + digits (10) and possibly symbols like !@#$%^&*() for another 10 to maximum of 46 colors.
and then a legend like what color each symbol is
if such a script would be useful for cross stitching people.