Palette Editor

Standard palettes are read-only and do not support editing capabilities. However, palettes created from within this dialog in Fractorium are editable and are referred to as “user created” palettes. Fractorium installs with one default user created palette file named user-palette.xml.

User created palettes files are stored in the settings folder where the settings and stylesheet files are stored.

When the Palette Editor is shown, the current palette is loaded into it.

While the combo box will show both standard and user created palette files, only the latter will enable all functionality in this window. Hover over the combo box to see exactly where the current file is stored.

The arrows along the bottom portion of the gradient allow you to adjust the colors in the palette, and these are only available in user created palettes.

The arrows along the top portion of the gradient allow you to adjust the color index of each xform by dragging. This is helpful because it gives an overall view where you can see all indices at once, as opposed to the main window which suffers from only showing the index of the current xform, which makes it difficult to get an idea of where they are located in relation to each other.

Exiting the Palette Editor by clicking Ok will assign the current palette back to the palette of the flame in the main editor window. Exiting by clicking Cancel will restore that palette back to what it originally was before opening the Palette Editor.

Note that regardless of what button is clicked, edits to the palette files themselves are always saved automatically.

New palette file

Copy palette file

Palette combo box

Palette list box

Append palette

Overwrite palette

Delete palette

Palette gradient display

Color picker

Sync

Auto distribute

Blend

Arrows

Add color

Remove color

Invert colors

Random colors

Distribute colors

Reset

Create from image

Create again from image