How to recolor images with a custom color palette in Plnty

Add a palette element from the canvas toolbar. Choose colors manually when you already have a direction, or describe a color idea to generate a starting palette. A prompt such as “lemon cake with coffee” provides a concrete theme to explore.

You can keep adjusting the generated palette. Adjust the swatches before using it, and keep a copy on the canvas beside your source image. That gives you a visible reference for later experiments.

Open Recolor, add your image and supply the palette. The tool offers General, Portrait and Object modes. Choose the mode that matches the image you are working on; the object example uses Object, and the portrait example uses Portrait.

When a color needs to go somewhere specific, give its swatch a descriptive name: double-click a swatch to name it, click it to change its color. In the ceramic dog example, a two-colour palette assigns a pale sand to “background” and orange to “subject.” The dog turns terracotta while the linen and the wall keep their pale, sunlit look.

For a landscape, labels such as “sky” and “grass” can express a more specific direction. These labels guide generation; they are not pixel masks. Compare the result with the original to see where the colors went and what else changed.

For a portrait, begin with a palette that describes the intended look. The example starts with the words “alien makeup”, which gives green, violet, pink, brown and yellow. Run Recolor in Portrait mode, then compare the options side by side.

Portrait mode offers two models, Grok Imagine 2.0 and Bria Fibo Edit 1.5, and they interpret the palette differently. Grok turned the blush a saturated orange and the backdrop green; Bria kept the blush warm red and carried the violet into the hair and the turtleneck. Bria also warns on the card that it draws people anew, so a face can change. Use that difference to choose how far you want to push the image, rather than treating one result as automatically better.

If the background competes with the face, edit a swatch to a more muted color and label it “background,” then run another version. Check the face, hair, lighting and background together before selecting a result.

Keep the selected palette on the canvas after recoloring. You can use it as a shared color input when moving into another tool that accepts palettes. In image-gen, text-to-image mode with Recraft v4.1 Flash has a Palette field: drag a palette from the canvas onto its bar, or write one from words. The example writes “lemon cake with coffee” for a café poster.

Reusing that input gives the next image a common color direction. It does not guarantee identical rendering across models, or preserve a character, material or composition. Compare the images together and refine the ones that drift from the direction you want.