Paint Shop Pro includes a Safety palette with 256 colors that are Web-safe—your images can be viewed without color distortion on most computer monitors. There are three ways to use this palette on an image:
Load the Safety palette into your image. For 16 million color (24-bit) images, this flattens the layers, reduces the image’s color depth to 256 colors (8-bit), and makes many of Paint Shop Pro’s effect and correction commands unavailable.
Decrease the image’s color depth to 256 colors and select the Standard/Web-Safe Palette option. Decreasing the color depth also flattens layers and makes some Paint Shop Pro commands unavailable. For more information, see Decreasing Color Depth to 256 Colors (8-Bit).
Edit the image in 16 million colors (saving it in .PspImage format), then use the GIF or PNG optimizer to export a copy of the image. These optimizers use the Web-safe palette by default and decrease the color depth in the saved image. We recommend this alternative because it does not change the color depth or flatten the layers of your original .PspImage file and keeps all Paint Shop Pro effect and commands available. For more information, see Saving Images for the Web.
To load the Web-safe color palette:
Choose Image > Palette > Load Palette.
Select the Palettes folder of the Paint Shop Pro program folder.
Select the palette Safety.pal.
In the Apply palette using group box, select an option:
Nearest color matching Changes each image color to the color in the palette that is the closest match.
Error diffusion dithering Attempts to maintain the image’s appearance by dithering colors that are not in the palette. Dithering places pixels of different colors next to each other to simulate missing colors.
Maintain indexes Assigns each color in the palette a sequential index number and does the same for each color in the image, then changes each color in the image to the like-numbered color in the palette. This option is not available for 16 million color images.
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