Convert old palettes

[dejudicibus]

I am using Paintshop Pro X7. Honestly I do not like the new Material panel, but at least I would like to use the palettes I saved in previous version. I hasve all locations listed in File Locations for Palettes but...

1. the palettes I created in X7 are not visible in the default location for saving
2. the palettes I created with previous versions are totally ignored by X7

Any idea what's wrong?

[LeviFiction]

Palettes or swatches?

So X7 kind of adds a little bit of confusion to palettes. There are three palettes now. 1) Palettes UI - Materials palette, layers palette, etc 2) Palettes Image - These are the colors shown in the current image if the color depth of the image is 256 or less. 3) Swatch Palettes - these are individual folders holding their own swatch files. These show up in the materials palette.

So, just checking, but do you have swatches setup to use the previous folder locations?

If that doesn't work, you may just have to copy your swatches into the X7 folder. I don't know if the new palette swatch organization will mess anything up.

[dejudicibus]

Palettes or swatches?

Palettes

So, just checking, but do you have swatches setup to use the previous folder locations?

Yes, but I am interested to my custom palettes now, not swatches. Swatches works. Palettes do not.

[LeviFiction]

Oh, you're talking about the fact that the materials palette doesn't change the normal color pickers to match the palette. Sorry, had misunderstood.

No, that's a bug. That is a legitimate bug we have to wait for Corel to fix.

[dejudicibus]

Well, I am saying that I have a certain number of *.PspPalette and .pal files in my Palette folder that are ignored by X7. They have been created with previous versions of PSP.

[trueblue]

To support Levifiction's post, the colour palettes feature is definately broken. It has been reported and hope it will be fixed asap as this is a good feature in PSP and I too have lots of palettes.

[dejudicibus]

I understand now. Really a pity. Honestly I do not like the new wheel....

[BitterOldMan]

Look in;
C:\Users\"CurentUser"\Documents\Corel PaintShop Pro\17.0\Swatches
For palettes you have created.. You should find a file folder named for each custom palette created by you in PSP X7. within that folder you will find a separate script representing each Color/Pattern/Gradient/Texture/Art within that swatch..

Multiple Swatch Scripts make up a single Palette.. Thus one would have 256 Swatch Scripts located in a folder that represents a single 256 color palette..

Old PSP palettes are nothing more than a listing all colors in a single document for that palette, while PSP X7 palettes are Swatch Scripts each of which represents ONE Color..

Open "C:\ProgramData\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro X7\Corel_14\Swatch_Corel_14_001.PspScript"
with a non formatting text editor...
MS Notepad works ok as a viewer/editor but is limited..
I prefer "EditPlus text editor for Windows" for scripting..
You will see this script is the color white ONLY,, and because of the name/numbering will occupy the first position of the Standard Palette supplied by Corel..

I have spent days converting custom palettes to scripts.. it's ether that or go back to Jasc PSP7

BTW I create a separate location to save all my PSP Resources to.
C:\PSPResources\17.0
That way all of my masks, tubes, shapes, palettes, etc are in one place that won't be disturbed/deleted on an uninstall...
On my machine:
C:\PSPResources\17.0\Swatches\SkinPalette folder has 16 scripts as it is a 16 color palette named SkinPalette
"Swatch_SkinPalette Swatch 001.PspScript" Through "Swatch_SkinPalette Swatch 016.PspScript"
These are solid flesh colors i use for touch up...

Hope my ramblings help as I was miffed with Palettes at first..

[trueblue]

PaintShop Pro X7 SP1.
(Colour) Palettes are different to Colour Swatches. The latter are found in the Materials Palette and the files in the Swatches folder in PaintShop Pro / 17 / Swatches folder.

Palettes have two scripts - Capture Palette and Palette from Image. When a palette is created it is saved in PaintShop Pro / 17 / Palettes folder.

When a Colour Palette is loaded the colours show in the HSL Map in the Materials Palette. The small icon shows the colour selected.

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Tutorials for PSPX7 for Palettes and Swatches can be found HERE:

[dejudicibus]

Is there a way to convert colour palettes to swatches? An easy one, I mean....

[LeviFiction]

I once made a script that converts palettes to swatches....but I forgot where I put it. Luckily I know of one that someone else made also.

http://pixelnook.vapho.com/kit/PaletteToSwatches.zip

Place the script that's inside this zip folder into your Scripts-Trusted folder. It needs to be there because it's going to be creating its own files on your harddrive.

Then open an image, and load in the palette you want to convert to swatches.

Finally run this script, it'll go through the palette and convert each color into its own swatch.

Load a new palette and run the script again. Just one after the other.

[trueblue]

Thanks for this Levifiction.