A core component of pixel art is a restricted color palette.
In modern digital art, a 24-bit RGB color space allows us to represent over 16 million unique colors. However, pixel art is a medium of constraints. One of the constraints of traditional pixel art is a highly restrictive color palette comprised from as little as two to a few dozen colors.
Stipple Effect supports palettes, and has a few features specifically designed for palettes or with palettes in mind.
UI elements related to palettes can be found in the Colors panel.
Individual colors in Stipple Effect can be marked as excluded. An excluded palette color has a 
overlay. An excluded color, while still a part of the palette, is omitted from palette operations such as palettization or the shade brush 
.
Stipple Effect has a file type specifically for palettes, with the file extension .stippal. Such palette files can be opened and loaded directly with 
.
However, users may want to import palettes in other formats from the Internet or other art programs into Stipple Effect. In order to do this:
- open or paste an uncompressed image (e.g. PNG) of the palette's colors in Stipple Effect
- create a new palette (
) - extract the canvas colors to the newly created palette (
)
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