I was playing with a friends copy of paintshop pro the other day and found the option to arrange the colour palette in order of luminosity, which would be really useful to me. Is there any way to do it in photoshop. I can't think of any method appart from doing it manually which would be really tedious! Failing a method using photoshop maybe it would be possible to import palettes from paintshop pro? Even if you can do that I have a feeling that they'd come in unsorted. Any ideas? Baz

When you bring up the Color Picker, you can click the circle before the L (LAB Color), select a color and use the slider. The color picker also has "warning: out of gamut for printing" which appears as a triangle with a ! inside and "warning: not a web safe color" which appears as a box. By clicking on one or both, it will bring you to the next closest safe color (for printing or web). Also has a "Only Web Colors" checkbox. You can also change the sliders on the Color palette by clicking on the right arrow in the circle and selecting the LAB sliders.

Attached Link: http://www.equilibrium.com/products/deBabelizer/index.jsp

In Photoshop 6 (not sure about other versions) when you "Save For Web" and select "Gif" as the format, you are given the ability to sort sort the colour table via a drop arrow. You should check out "Debabelizer" for all yor advanced palette needs. There is a demo availibele (link attached)

Thanks for the info, I'm still using PS4 at the moment! which doesn't have a save for web option, I'm hoping to upgrade to 6 soon though and I'll have a play with this when I get it! Baz