Exclusive Features for NINTENDO DS	Ultimate Color Reduction Engine
Image Editing	Enhanced Palette Management
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Ultimate Color Reduction Engine

Color Reduction Configuration

Highly well received iMageStudio Color Reduction functions allow creating an indexed color image of less than 256 colors from a full color image of 116,777,216 colors without suffering its quality. With their rich features, your image can be modified for multipurpose. The Color Reduction Functions also equip the function to recall your own optional settings and macro functions to process large amount of images by batch job.

[Color Reduction Configuration]

Color Reduction with Transparent Colors

Color Reduction with Transparent Colors iMageStudio Color Reduction functions are also applicable for "Transparent Color", which is use for composing multiple images. In video game field "transparent color (pixel)" is used to composite multiple images on screen. The color reduction fully supports the transparent color by preserving transparent pixels during color reduction process. After the application of color reduction, the pixels specified as transparent color will stay in RGB value of the setting prior to the color reduction.

[Color Reduction with Transparent Colors]

iMageStudio also offers functions handy for game creators allowing automatic transparent color re-assignment of placing them on palette0, black (0, 0, 0) etc.

Common Palette Color Reduction

iMageStudio supports "Common Palette Color Reduction" of executing color reduction with the optimized common palette for all the images. As iMageStudio creates a histogram directly from images on a disc, the most suitable common palette can be produced even for thousands of image files.

Fixed Palette Color Reduction and Common Palette Color Reduction

"Fixed Color Palette Color Reduction" can include all the colors you want in your Palette for image color reduction! And now, iMageStudio supports "Fixed Palette" Color Reduction applied to images among opened. Simply select Palette Entries you want to use and drag & drop them on an image to reduce its colors. The color reduction dialog opens, and iMageStudio processes color reduction over the image using the Palettes you dropped as a Fixed Palette.

[Fixed Palette Color Reduction]

iMageStudio selects suitable colors from a Fixed Palette and process color reduction. For example, you have a Fixed Palette of 128 colors. You want to use this Fixed Palette but use only 32 colors for an image. iMageStudio automatically selects suitable 32 colors from the Palette to produce an image by color reduction. Improved the Quality of iMageStudio's Ultimate Color Reduction Engine! The accuracy of Palette RGB value for color reduction is improved greatly! Now iMageStudio creates much higher quality images by normal and Fixed Palette Color Reduction.

Color Reduction for Important Color Area

You can specify prominent and important areas in image. The Color Reduction Engine tries to assign more colors to the important area. For example, if you reduce colors of an image composed of a girl in front of mountain, you may specify her face and hair as important area. When you reduce colors in this configuration, more colors are allocated to her face and hair than the background mountain. You can specify any number of important areas in one image.

[Important Color Area]

Color Reduction History

Hearing from competitive users, iMageStudio has been left out complicated steps to reach various functions of more than 30 options for color reduction; now providing them to be utilized effortlessly. This history function for color reduction lets you obtain the history of color reduction settings with one click. You don't have to memorize or write down the settings any more! You can save the history in the file, and load it back anytime.

[Color Reduction History]