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Working with CorelDRAW Palettes part 2, writing .pal files

Continuing my investigation into CorelDRAW palettes, this brief article describes how to write .pal files for use with CorelDRAW! 3.0.

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Richard Moss
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Working with CorelDRAW Palettes part 1, reading .pal files

I recently picked up a copy of CorelDRAW! 3.0 from eBay. This article covers how to read text-based .PAL colour palettes created by this application.

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Richard Moss
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Converting colours between RGB and CMYK in C#

In my previous articles on reading and writing colours from various palette/swatch formats, I left CMYK conversion as an exercise for the reader and only demonstrated RGB aspects. This article demonstrates how to convert colours in CMYK format to RGB and vice versa.

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Reading and writing 18-bit RGB VGA Palette (pal) files with C#

18-bit RGB palettes are an old format used by VGA displays of yesteryear. These palettes use 6-bits for each of the red, green and blue channels and usually allowed a maximum of 256 colours from the 262,144 unique colours available. This article describes how to read and write 18-bit palette files.

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ColorPicker Controls 1.0.4.0 Update

The [ColorPicker Controls](https://github.com/cyotek/Cyotek.Windows.Forms.ColorPicker) have been updated to version 1.0.4.0. This is a fairly substantial update, with quite a few bug fixes and enhancements to the code. I'll also briefly discuss plans for future updates to the library.

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ColorPicker Controls for Windows Forms

A quick overview of a new open source library for selecting colors in Windows Forms applications.

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Richard Moss