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RECOLOR 1.01
JUNE 7, 1987
By Stephen Vermeulen
3635 Utah Dr. N.W.,
Calgary, Alberta,
CANADA, T2N 4A6
Copyright (C) 1987 By Stephen Vermeulen
This version may be freely redistributed
so long as not charge is made for such
distribution.
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0.0 Introduction
Recolor is a program that addresses the problem of changing the colour
palette of one picture to suit that of another. This problem commonly
happens when you have started work on a painting and you wish to merge
part of another painting into your painting. However, you usually find
that the two paintings have incompatible palettes, so upon merging in
the new painting you find you have some work to do to correct the
colours. This program does this colour correction for you, automatically!
Recolor also handles the problem of reducing the size of a painiting's
palette. This occurs when art created with 32 colours must be merged
into a display or picture with 16, 8, 4, or even 2 colours. Because of
this ability, Recolor can be used with Iconize to reduce the size and
colour content of a picture automatically and make a WorkBench icon for the
picture that is a miniture of the picture.
Of course the files that Recolor works with are all IFF ILBM type files
so it is fully compatible with the rest of your Amiga software.
1.0 Running Recolor
Recolor can only be run from the CLI (this will probably be fixed soon).
There are two ways of invoking it. First just typing:
recolor
will result in the copyright notice, short instructions, and the version
number being printed. By typing a command of the following format:
recolor input.pic output.pic newpalette.pic
Recolor will process the "input.pic" file, modifing it so that it uses
the palette of the picture file called "newpalette.pic" and then saving
the result in the file "output.pic".
2.0 Memory Usage
Recolor needs to allocate 2 complete picture buffers, so if you have a 512K
machine you might find it difficult to Recolor HiRes 16 colour pictures.
Recolor works REAL NICE on a 2.5Meg Amiga!
3.0 The newpalette.pic file
This file is a standard IFF picture file that has the palette (colour map)
that you wish the input picture to be adjusted to use. Some drawing programs
allow you to save just the palette of a picture, you can use this option
if it exists, if not just use the entire picture or a brush.
4.0 Making Icons of Pictures
To make icons for the WorkBench that are minitures of the actual pictures
do the following steps:
1. Recolor the picture to use the WorkBench's palette.
2. Iconize the picture to the desired size.
3. Convert the recolored and iconized picture to a true
WorkBenck icon with the Brush2Icon program.
5.0 Support
Any comments, suggestions, or bug reports you might care to make will be
gratefully received. If you are interested in seeing this program improve
much send a contribution ($10-$20 to me at the address above). My current
policy on improving the program is to release a new version for every 5
contributions I receive, or when I need a new feature!