About Color
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The Graphics editor comes equipped with many features that specifically handle and customize colors. You can set a foreground or background color, fill bounded areas with color, or select a color on an image to use as the current foreground or background color.
The Graphic editor’s Colors palette initially displays 24 colors: 16 standard colors and 8 dithered colors. In addition to these 24, you can create your own custom colors. You can save customized color palettes on disk and reload them as needed. The Colors palette you used most recently is saved in the Registry and automatically loaded the next time you start Visual Studio 97.
The Palette tab displays up to 256 colors. Changing any of the colors on the Palette tab will immediately change the corresponding color in the image. The colors on the Palette tab are always solid colors and can indicate any color your video card is capable of displaying.
What do you want to do?
Select foreground or background colors
Fill a bounded area of an image with a color
Pick up a color from an image to use elsewhere
Choose an opaque or transparent background