Changing Palette for Day/Light Mode using GIMP

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Published on 2011-01-12T16:59:16Z Indexed on 2011/01/13 5:58 UTC
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Hello,

Suppose I've a picture, which want to achieve day/light mode by changing 8bpp color palette.

If I want the pixel index of my picture is always fixed for both day mode and night mode. For example, the 1st pixel index is 100. Which I can look up index 100 in day mode palette and night mode palette. How can I use GIMP to do so? My goal is to not update my pixel index of my picture.

Also, as you see in two palette, they are not one one mapping. That is index 1 of the day mode palette and index 1 of the night mode palette may not used in the same pixel of the picture, how can I tackle this problem?

Actually, my use case is as follow I want to use one 8bpp picture to achieve day/night mode by update only the color palette (without updating the pixel index). The advantage is I only have to prepare 2 256 byte palette rather than saving 2 big pictures in my limited data ram.

Thanks a lot

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