| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 6 May 2000 at 11:52:39 |
| Subject: | Re: Tacky Backdrops!!! |
On 06-May-00, Liam wrote:
>> It's best to scale and crop the image to the size you want in any
>> image-processing program before use. I use ADPro.
>
>> If you want a border arround the image, ADPro can do that too.
>
>> Of course if you change the screen size of your Workbench frequently
>> this won't do, but mine stays the same size for long periods.
>
> I used to do this under 3.0, Makes no change with OS3.5
> Still UGLY WBpatterns :( :(
One thing worth trying is to set up the palette in ADPro so that it
doesn't use the first 8 colours. For instance, "Colors used 120, Offset
Color 8" with Custom Palette set. That leaves the first 8 colours free
for Workbench use, out of a total of 128. Then render and save.
I don't know any other image processing program that has this feature,
but there may be one.
ADPro's renders are particularly good. I have even had nice looking
background images in only 4 colours.
Apologies to those who don't have ADPro. Avid bought it and are sitting
on it. This is a classic example of an old Amiga program which should be
retrieved from its owners and made available.
However, under 3.5 I am just using JPEGs on a 256-colour Workbench and
getting good results from the standard OS renderer. Maybe 128 colours is
a bad number. Have you tried 64 or 32?
Regards
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