Is there a way to use specific colours on gradient noise?

Hi,
I am hoping to make a radial gradient noise effect, but I would like to select the specific colours on the effect. I see that when you go to the gradient-maker tool and switch it to the noise option, there is no option to select the specific colours. Is there a different way to achieve this desired effect?
Basically, I would like to make circular lines of colour from a specific colour set.
Thanks!

Hi again,
Thanks again for your help. For example, I am starting with an image like this created in photoshop:
Next, I will take indexed colours from this (probably 50 of them), and want to make an image like this but with only the 50 colours indexed:
So in the end you get a "colour pie chart" like this:
Anyway it sounds like there is not an automatic way to do this? Otherwise I will just overlay a template with the slices and manually fill in the colours--- but as there are many photographs in my project I was just hoping to find a quicker way to achieve this or something similar.
If you have any further tips, let me know. Otherwise, thanks again for your input until now!

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