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6.03.3 Palette Trace

 The Palette Trace provides color tracing which is especially useful when designing paper piecing patterns.
In this example, the following flower image was imported and will be vectorized:

 With the Palette Trace, the most prevalent 16 colors in the image are identified and displayed. To switch to
the Palette Trace method, click on the tab named Palette and the following will appear:

Resample Image
and Despeck will
be used just as Click on the
they were in Pixel. Palette tab

Median Cut or Octree can be Up to 16 colors
used to generate the colors. will appear)

 You can then select which colors to merge together, into one color, to be traced. Note that selecting
Median Cut, instead of Octree, will use a different algorithm and produce a different set of 16 colors:

Median Cut is used to
generate the colors.
A different set of
colors is generated.

 For this example, we will return to the choice of using Median Cut. First, turn off all of the colors by right
clicking on the boxes. A popup menu will appear which provides some options for which colors to have
selected as well as how to sort them. Begin by choosing Select None.

Select options Click on Select None

Sort options

 With no colors selected, you can then click on colors that are similar and would be merged together to
simplify the trace. For example, for the flower in this example, begin by clicking on all of the shade of pink:

Click once on each pink box to mark
it. If you inadvertently click on a
color box you do not wish to include,
click again to deselect it.

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