Raster Images:
 Image Processing
  Doing Color Expansion or Reduction

Automated color reduction:

PaintDither property

General color expansion or reduction:

BalanceColors method

ColorRes method

ColorResList method

ConvertSignedToUnsigned method

ConvertUnsignedToSigned method

Support for dithering to a custom palette:

UserPalette property

Specialized color expansion or reduction:

AutoBinary method

ChannelMix method

ColorizeGray method

ConvertToColoredGray method

Desaturate method

DynamicBinary method

Grayscale method

GrayScaleExt method

GrayScaleToDuotone method

GrayScaleToMultitone method

Halftone method

IsGrayscale property

SampleTarget method

Segment method

SelectData method

ShiftData method