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Henry

2004-12-20, 7:20 pm

I downloaded a little black and white street map gif and want to put red
circles on it to designate some intersections. But the map seems to be
locked in black and white - my color palette is all gray. Color depth
for the gif shows as 256, though.

How do I get it to accept colors?

Jim
Fred Hiltz

2004-12-20, 7:20 pm

Henry wrote:
> I downloaded a little black and white street map gif and want to
> put red circles on it to designate some intersections. But the
> map seems to be locked in black and white - my color palette is
> all gray. Color depth for the gif shows as 256, though.
> How do I get it to accept colors?


A palette-based image can have only the colors in the palette, of
course. You have two choices.

1) Edit the palette. Image > Palette > Edit Palette. Change one of
the colors to the red that you need. Unused colors are usually shown
after all the others as black.

2) Increase the color depth. Image > Increase Color Depth > 16
Million Colors. Now you can paint any color. The GIF Optimizer will
reduce it again to 256 colors if necessary to re-write it as a GIF.
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com

1000%

2004-12-20, 11:15 pm

in article WjIxd.4260$9j5.2226@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net, Henry at
doREDotACT2@e*arthlink.net wrote on 12/20/2004 2:25 PM:

> I downloaded a little black and white street map gif and want to put red
> circles on it to designate some intersections. But the map seems to be
> locked in black and white - my color palette is all gray. Color depth
> for the gif shows as 256, though.
>
> How do I get it to accept colors?
>
> Jim



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Kris Zaklika

2004-12-21, 4:16 am

Henry wrote:
>
> I downloaded a little black and white street map gif and want to put red
> circles on it to designate some intersections. But the map seems to be
> locked in black and white - my color palette is all gray. Color depth
> for the gif shows as 256, though.
>
> How do I get it to accept colors?


Image > Increase Color Depth > 16 Million Colors. This
item is under the Color menu in older versions of PSP.

> Jim

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