> Then reduce the color depth to 16 colours (using dithering or not, to > taste);
Actually, seems PaintShop Pro doesn't have the option to reduce color depth to "16 of *THESE* colors". I kinda assumed it would. So when you reduce color depth to 16 colors, you must click the "Windows / Safe colors" option instead of "Optimised Octree" or "Optimised Median Cut". The Windows / Safe colors include almost direct equivalents of the SAM palette. Then, once you've got yr image in 16 'safe' colors, reload the SAM palette to get the 16 real 'sam' colors. I just knocked up this .pal file for PaintShop Pro using a bit of simple C ... It contains the 128 sam colors in a standard format. Apologies if this discussion actually interests only me and doesn't answer your question ! :-)
Sam.pal
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