That's planned to be implemented in the future, and will require modifications to the sprite editor:
https://github.com/haroldo-ok/vcs-game-maker/issues/166
For now, it's already working on the background editor, and to activate it, you have to activate the "Enable per-row playfield colors (pfcolors)" switch on the "Options" screen.
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