MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS MX 2004-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual page 239

Locking colors in a palette
You can lock individual colors so that you cannot remove or change them when changing palettes
or when reducing the number of colors in a palette. If you switch to another palette after colors
have been locked, locked colors are added to the new palette.
To lock a selected color, do one of the following:
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Click the Lock button at the bottom of the Optimize panel.
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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the color swatch, and choose Lock Color
from the context menu.
To unlock a color:
Select a locked color in the Optimize panel color table.
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Click the Lock button in the Optimize panel, or right-click (Windows) or Control-click
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(Macintosh) the color swatch and choose Lock Color.
To unlock all colors:
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Choose Unlock All Colors from the Optimize panel Options menu.
Editing colors in a palette
You can change a color in the current palette by editing it in the Optimize panel color table.
Editing a color replaces all instances of that color in the image to be exported or to be saved as a
bitmap. Editing does not replace the color in the original image, unless you are working with a
bitmap and save the image as such; in this case, you should also save the image as a PNG file to
retain an editable version of the original image.
To edit a color:
Do one of the following to open the system color picker:
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Select a color and click the Edit Color button at the bottom of the Optimize panel.
Double-click a color in the color table.
Change the color using the system color picker.
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The new color replaces every instance of the replaced color in the preview area.
Note: Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) a color in the palette to display a
shortcut menu of edit options for the color.
Using websafe colors
Websafe colors are colors that are common to both Macintosh and Windows platforms. These
colors are not dithered when viewed in a web browser on a computer display set to 256 colors.
Fireworks has several methods of applying and using websafe colors.
To force all colors to be websafe colors:
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Choose Web 216 from the Indexed Palette pop-up menu in the Optimize panel.
To create an adaptive palette that favors websafe colors:
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Choose Web Adaptive from the Indexed Palette pop-up menu in the Optimize panel.
Non-websafe colors that are close to websafe colors are converted to the closest websafe color.
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