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PerlerPal v. 1.4 Released!

Posted by Ed in Crafts on October 4, 2009 | View Comments

PerlerPal

I just finished updating PerlerPal to 1.4 – here’s the new features!

  • Added a load option to the palette editor
  • Added the ability to turn off and on the grid
  • Fixed an issue with palettes being able to save invalid entries (which made some palettes not render correctly)
  • Added a palette display for the loaded palette
  • Added an option to show color numbers (good for printouts/colorblindness)
  • Added the ability to create new palettes

Thanks to all that have commented – these changes were made because the users requested them. I’m happy that people enjoy using the utility – please keep the comments coming! It’s what makes me happy to keep improving the tool! Go to the new tool here!

  • alyssa
    everytime i upload a picture it wont show it on the grid. what could be the problem, i have vista, could that be it..?
  • edsalisbury
    Alyssa, I'm not sure - Vista should work fine. Can you post an example of which image you're trying to upload? Thanks for trying out PerlerPal!
  • Sven
    Really nice tool, thanks !

    When I began using perles (hama) some weeks ago, I thought about creating a tool, to plan "objects" - or however to name it. Fortunately I first searched for existing tools. And this one is really nice ! At the moment I just miss one thing, it's what Cherv asked for yet: wouldn't it be possible, to make the order number of colors in the palette editable instead of just using a 0-based list ? As I mentioned I'm using Hama and in all hama-palettes I tried, white is 0 instead of 1 and the other numbers are given the number of the real palette less 1 accordingly.
    Hm, ok, I think it could be solved editing a palette with 0 defined as a dummy color and then starting with 1 as white ... but that would mean to edit a hole palette. At least the option to set the order number free would be much more user friendly.

    Another thing: the "translucent" colors look clearly different than the "normal" ones; it's not just a thing of using the color value to calculate their usage.
    But, again, this is a question of the definition of a palette. However, not including the translucent colors would again mean that you can't use the palette-numbers in straight order ...
    Perhaps the possibility to make the order numbers in palettes editable would be a nice feature for one of the next releases.

    And, wait, ... just one more other thing: where's the App ? ;-)
  • edsalisbury
    Sven, I have updated PP to use 1-based numbering (as well as moving to it's own domain (perlerpal.com) - hopefully that helps.
  • Siesna
    I love this tool. It's so simple, and exactly what I needed, and FREE. Thanks a million!!
  • gav
    I have attempted to create a few palettes (the "Megaman2", "Megaman2-1" and gtest1 through 3), added several colors to each, but upon saving, none of the colors are in the palette. I've tried with and without the leading hash on the color's 6 character hex string.

    I am on Snow Leopard, tried with both FF 3.6 and Safari 4.0.
  • Ed
    Krix, what problem are you having? It's hard to tell from your post, therefore it's hard to offer any suggestions.
  • Ed
    Beatriz, to use PerlerPal, you can upload one of your own pictures, by clicking on the "browse" button by the "Image File" field, and find the picture on your machine. Click ok, and it should upload it to the server and show you your image using the default perler palette. From there, you can tweak the settings (palette, cell sizes, etc. etc.) to suit your needs. Hopefully this helps.
  • Ed
    VooD - the reason the Hama 48 color palette isn't working is that it was a user-created palette, and your results may vary using them :) I would suggest using the "hama" palette and see how that works for you. That's the one that I created, using the Hama color sheet.
  • krix
    cant getit to work! what do i do wrong? its same size and tryd bothe jpeg and bmp and som other formats... can som one giv me som light on this ^^ thanx
  • beatriz
    i´d like to know how to use this program, i am addicted of hama beads and i want to do my desings please, answer me :) thanks
  • VooD
    Hama 48 colours palette is not working :(

    Can you fix it?

    Thanks
  • Very good program. I am loving the art work this piece of brilliance can make. thanks and keep up the good work.
  • Bleagle
    Man, I have to thank you so much. Your program is perfect for bead sprites! And its free, too. Thank you.
  • Mary
    Would it be possible to purchase a copy of this program from you
  • Cherv
    Oh wow, these changes are really impressive. When I suggested the numbers I just meant on the side where it says the colour names, but this way is even better as you can see them on the board. One suggestion though, is it seems that on Hama, they are all out by 1, as white is 0 when it should be 1, which is what it says on the packets and this chart I found:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/kaptenen...
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