Palette from Tile Grid Plug-in

[tim]

This plug-in spawned from this topic: http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=12& ... 10#p239579
It simply samples a tile grid and creates palette out of it.

palette_from_tile_grid.py #

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Plug-in Menu Location: Python-Fu/Palette From Tile Grid...

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Instructions:

1. Have your image opened with your tile grid of colors
2. Run plug-in. Enter new palette's name, select xtiles/ytiles, then OK to run.
3. That's it. A new palette will be created under that new palette name.

Sample result input and resulting palette:

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yellow-palette-from-tile-grid.png # (11.89 KiB) Viewed 5374 times (Thumbnail | Recognize)

[Wallace]

[Pat625]

That is awesome, as Wallace states. I do not know how you can do it so quickly!

[tim]

It was simple in logics.
pseudo code:

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Loop through y-tiles
   Loop through x-tiles
     Sample the color a center of tile.
     Add it to palette.

That's it.

[Alchemist]

Hello Tim,

WOW, another great plugin. This will be used well.

Thanks.....

[nidhogg]

That's a brilliant idea, seems to pick the colors perfectly from any tiled image. Thanks Tim.

[neurolurker]

Thanks always to Tim.

If you do hunter-gathering on web palettes, you find most of the images you might want to use as GIMP color resources are not indexed and are not organized in grids and making palettes from them can be tedious. With Tim's script you can sample gradient images with alarming ease:

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This works well with, for example, color temperature gradients and hue-based gradients. Similar colors can simply be deleted with the PALETTE EDITOR. Or, as in the whites above, retained for their visual framing value.

If the source image is organized but has text it can be pre-processed in a few strokes and clicks. Text (such as color names or RGB values) placed over the individual colors can be cleared up with the clone tool or Resynth HEAL SELECTION or select-and-delete followed by ZEALOUS CROP to close the gaps.

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Centered text after FILTERS - MAP - RESYNTH - HEAL SELECTIONs.jpg # (11.34 KiB) Viewed 5304 times (Thumbnail | Recognize)

If there's any further development interest in the script, in my opinion it would be useful to have a variable sample area to use for source images less well organized than gradients. Such as paintings or photos. Some [well, at least one] "natural media" painting programs offer this feature as part of their [its] palette-making.

And, for myself, to close the circle, it would be nice to have the current output also export into a new image. Perhaps as a grid instead of HTML. There already may be a script or function to do this directly, but I haven't found it yet. Still new at GIMP and still hunting.

[tim]

For exporting to html table try: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1643&p=19134

[neurolurker]

Tim, I've got the plugin (version two but I've tried both recently) but it doesn't show up in the list with the other export choices. I have it in the personal plugins folder but have also tried it in other locations, including the SHARE folder but still couldn't find it. Always possible I've missed something glaringly obvious, but can you offer any guidance? Thanks.

[tim]

Please try version 3 (changed to UTF-8 instead of UTF-8 BOM for WIndows).