How to reduce image to 16 ‘windows’ colors

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Kendra
Feb 11, 2005
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Hi All,

I have an image I’d like to use for the icon in the win2000 system tray.

This requires that I use the windows 16 color palette.

I know how to use Photoshop to scale an image down to the windows 256 color palette, but how do I get to the 16 color palette?

Thanks,

-K
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Waldo
Feb 14, 2005
Kendra wrote:
Hi All,

I have an image I’d like to use for the icon in the win2000 system tray.
This requires that I use the windows 16 color palette.

I know how to use Photoshop to scale an image down to the windows 256 color palette, but how do I get to the 16 color palette?

Thanks,

-K

When you use File->Save for the web… you can select GIF as filetype and 16 for the number of colors. Below, you’ll see a color table. You can edit that and you can load or save color tables. In your case, you would want to load "windows.act" and you’re finished…

Waldo

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