Organize Swatches by Color.

[Giddy Jones]

Hey Community,

Is there a program to organize swatches, by color? By dark to light, or vice versa. Hopefully not an adobe product. I recently got the color palette from the game Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall up on a sprite sheet. Most of the colors were easy to rank up dark to light. One though is tough to line up accordingly.
                          This is the one. I'm guessing its used for gold and other elements in the game. Its colors are all over the place. Some of the colors are very similar. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[Lexou Duck]

if it doesn't exist yet i can imagine it wouldn't be that hard to make the algorithm
just sort the colors by the sum of their color channels (ie Rvalue + Gvalue + Bvalue, and the highest result will be the brightest color)
so yeah you can always do that by hand if it's only this particular palette you'll be needing it for

though this reminds me
i'd love to make a palette program with all the image palette-related tools you might need someday
but i'm doing lots of things at the moment and still haven't delved into how to make actual GUI software yet
*cue puggsoy*

[puggsoy]

I was actually working on a palette extraction and organization tool over a year ago but sort of gave up after having too many issues separating colours. However as Lexou said, simply organising a single palette by brightness should be easy.
I'd be glad to try making something once I've settled (still in the process of moving house at present).

Also once I get round to making that pixel art program (and I will) it'll hopefully have these sort of functions as well.

[Giddy Jones]

Hey Lexou duck and Puggsoy, thanks for your responses.

I did your suggestion Lexou, and it did help. In the end, I noticed none of the colors are perfect in this game, and finally came up with something. Ya puggsoy, normally it is easy, but this one though is pretty bad. Its not just one color spanning dark to light.

Those programs you guys mention sound great. I'd like to see those in the near future. A friend of mine did showing me a feature in Flash cs3 or cs4 that allows you to organize swatches by color. 

About Technology.com/Flash Tip: Sorting Swatches by Color

I don't have Flash so I couldn't try it out.

Thanks again!