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ACDSee 14 User Guide

Color depth options

Black and White Two-color black and white palette

16 Grays 16-color grayscale palette

256 Grays 256-color grayscale palette

16 Colors 16-color palette

256 Colors 256-color palette (GIF format uses 256 colors by default)

Hicolor 32,768-color palette

Truecolor 16,777,216-color palette of all colors visible to humans

You can use ACDSee 14 to convert an image to any of these color depths. However, to use certain image enhancement tools, filters,

blends, and adjustment options, the image must be Hicolor or Truecolor. To edit an image that is not originally Hicolor or Truecolor,

you can convert it, edit the image, and then convert it back to its original color depth.

Using the Color dialog box

The Colors dialog box appears in several places in Edit when you select or apply a color. You can use the Color dialog box to select a

color in multiple ways and to adjust a color using several different tools.

The color grids

In the top left corner there is a fixed grid of Basic colors to choose from, including gray, black, and white in the last three boxes.

Below it is a grid of Custom colors that you can fill in by creating a custom color, and then clicking the Add to Custom Colors

button.

The color palette and slider

Beside the Basic colors is a color palette. It contains all the colors of the spectrum from red through yellow, green, turquoise, blue,

purple, pink, to red again. The colors at the top of the palette are pure primary colors with increasing amounts of gray added until

along the bottom, the colors are mostly gray. If you want a color to have a smoky look, select it from the bottom end of this palette.

Similarly, you will find colors like browns at the lower end of the red/orange in this palette.

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