Locking Colors In A Palette; To Unlock A Color; To Select Multiple Colors; To Preview All The Pixels In The Document That Contain A Specific Color - MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 8-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual

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To rebuild the color table to reflect edits in the document:
Click Rebuild at the bottom of the Optimize panel.
When the table is rebuilt, the Rebuild button disappears, and the actual number of colors
used in the image is displayed in its place.
To select a color:
Click the color in the Optimize panel color table.

To select multiple colors:

Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) the colors.
To select a range of colors:
1.
Click a color.
2.
Hold Shift and click the last color in the range you want to select.

To preview all the pixels in the document that contain a specific color:

1.
Click the Preview button at the upper left of the Document window.
2.
Click and hold on a swatch in the Optimize panel color table.
The pixels that contain the selected swatch temporarily change to another highlight color
until you release the mouse button.
When previewing pixels in the document using the 2-Up or 4-Up view, select a view
other than the Original view.

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:
Click the Lock button at the bottom of the Optimize panel.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the color swatch, and select Lock
Color from the context menu.

To unlock a color:

1.
Select a locked color in the Optimize panel color table.
2.
Click the Lock button in the Optimize panel, or right-click (Windows) or Control-click
(Macintosh) the color swatch and select Lock Color.
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