I have been working with Imager for about a week now and would like to know how to better control the palette. I have an image that has some high-saturation colors in a small number of pixels. I create a paletted image with this type of call: 
my $paletted_img = $img->to_paletted({max_colors => 12,
                                        colors => \@colors,
                                        });

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I have noticed that the palette seems to consist of a lot of neutral, low-saturation colors. I suppose they have less color quantization error for more neutral and prevalent pixels. I would like to have some control over the palette so that I can preserve some of the high-saturation colors. I'd like to be able to specify one or two of the colors in the palette and let the module determine the other 10 or 11 colors. I can't find a lot of sample code on how to control how the pallete is formed, and the documentation I've found says that specifying a color list is a feature to be added to Imager in the future. Can anyone please help me fix one or two colors in the palette? Thanks.

In reply to control palette with Imager by johnrcomeau

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