RISC OS palettes in .GPL (GIMP) and .ACO (Photoshop) format

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Sophira
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RISC OS palettes in .GPL (GIMP) and .ACO (Photoshop) format

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Recently I've been playing with the 16-colour and 256-colour RISC OS palettes in the GIMP, and I've made three different palettes, which I want to share here as they may be useful for people. All three palettes are available in .GPL and .ACO formats in one ZIP file. (And for those who are curious or use other programs, the .GPL formats are readable in a text editor.)
  1. RISCOS-16color: This is the standard 16-colour RISC OS desktop palette, in native index order.
    RISCOS-16color.png
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  2. RISCOS-256color: This is the standard 256-colour RISC OS palette, in native index order.
    RISCOS-256color.png
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  3. RISCOS-256color-RO5Paint: This palette contains exactly the same 256 colours as RISCOS-256color, but in a different order - the order displayed by RO5's !Paint program, which is arguably more useful from an artistic perspective. Note that the colour order in this palette is not native index order. In practice, this is unlikely to matter, but if you're using it for advanced purposes (ie. not just converting images to and fro), then you may need to bear it in mind. Each colour is named with the correct RO-native palette index, however.
    RISCOS-256color-RO5Paint.png
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I hope people find these useful!
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Re: RISC OS palettes in .GPL (GIMP) and .ACO (Photoshop) format

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Sophira wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 2:12 pm This is the standard 16-colour RISC OS palette, in native index order.
Very pedantically, it isn't. It's the RISC OS desktop palette. The "standard 16-colour RISC OS palette" is exactly as per the BBC.
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Okay, yeah, that's fair. I'll edit that part. Thank you.

[edit: Done!]
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