Have you found a great looking color palette from a skilled artist and now you to add it to Aseprite’s Preset palette list?
To do that, you need to do the following:
- Save the color palette in PNG format. If the palette, for some reason, is in JPG format, I recommend that you screenshot it and save it as a PNG file due to PNG’s lossless compression feature. Just make sure that the JPG file you screenshot is displayed at its full size before you screenshot it.
- Move the saved PNG file to Aseprite’s palette directory. On my Mac the Aseprite palette directory is here:
/applications/aseprite.app/contents/resources/data/palettes
. It might be a slightly different location on your computer. - Give the palette a fitting name if it doesn’t have one already.
- Restart Aseprite.
Now you should be able to see the palette you just saved in Aseprite’s official Presets list (remember to restart Aseprite first!).
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Bonus tip
If you collect your palettes from Lospec, choose the format named “PNG Image (1x)”, as it fits perfectly inside Aseprite.
I also wrote this short tutorial about where to save and load your custom Aseprite palettes, since there are multiple options. It’ll be worth the 2 minutes of reading.