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- From: geohei@ibm.net (Georges Heinesch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: CV64 color question
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 10:32:33 GMT
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- In a message of 18-Feb-96 06:42:30, IAN J. EINMAN wrote to me:
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- IJE> correct, you would have to use that new CyberWBPattern program on
- IJE> Aminet. It eats too much memory for my taste.
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- I didn't find that one; not even something with sounds close to it.
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- IJE> As for not using all 256 colors, this is because of the way WB
- IJE> chooses colors. It will get pickier and pickier the less colors are
- IJE> free - it tries to find a close color.
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- Where is defined which color is actually free. I guess that the first and
- last 4 colors aren't free (used by WB). Besides that, the MagicWB Deamon
- locks colors 4-15 (so another 12 aren't free). Is that right?
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- IJE> There is a patch on Aminet called "ObtainBetterPens" or something
- IJE> like that, it may help you.
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- It really increases the number of pens, which are used by the background
- picture. Why doesn't the WB do this right away?
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- IJE> Lastly, I have a tip. When you load your picture for your backdrop,
- IJE> don't scale it into
- IJE> 256 colors. Use ADPro or your program of choice to scale it to
- IJE> >>128<< colors. It looks almost as good, actually looks fine if you
- IJE> use a nice gfx program with dithering. You will then get a very good
- IJE> reproduction of the image, that seems to usually look BETTER than if
- IJE> you use 256 colors, because the 256 color image will remap some
- IJE> colors out.
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- IJE> All my backgrounds are 800x600x128 colors, on a 256 color WB, and
- IJE> they look great.
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- I tried this and have to admit that the quality is slightly better.
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- Thanks so far.
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- Cu
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