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256 Colour Icons
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PAW of the Spap Team
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This here is just a load of 256 colour icons that I made for
use on my workbench.
I have been messing about with Iconian (by Chad Randall),
discovered what an excellent editor it was and started to make some
workbench icons. This led to altering my palette about 10 times and
trying loads of pictures for the backdrop to find one that didn't mess
up the palette to much!
Eventually I found the Playmate picture (now converted to 16
colour - high res, (I'm crap at art so I had to use someone elses
work, it came from a French coverdisk!)) altered it quite a lot, and
bunged it on my big hard one. Then made a nice palette using DPaint,
put in more brown/flesh colours because I wanted to make some icons of
women (yes I am sexist, and I haven't got any pictures of men anyway).
Saved out the palette and used Chads 'ShoveColors' program which comes
with Iconian to put the palette on workbench.
You can see by the icons on this disk how good the program is.
With a minimum of artistic talent and just a bit of touching up (!)
it's amazing what you can turn out on a colourful workbench. So why
not try it yourself or just mess about with the ones I've done. :-)
To see the icons with the correct palette, double click on the
'AlterColTemp' icon. This will temporarily give you the correct
colours.
IF THE ICONS DO NOT LOOK RIGHT...
ENSURE YOU LOAD A FULL WORKBENCH 3.0 OR ABOVE,
HAVE A 256 COLOUR WORKBENCH,
OPEN A SHELL AND TYPE THE NEXT LINE EXACTLY AS IT IS WRITTEN...
ICONS:STUFF/SHOVECOLORS ICONS:STUFF/PALETTE256
OR
DOUBLE CLICK ON AlterColTemp AGAIN
If it doesn't work now I don't know what you've done.
>>> I AM ASSUMING YOU ARE RUNNING YOUR SYSTEM FROM A HARD DRIVE WITH
NORMAL WORKBENCH, IF YOU ARE NOT THESE ICONS ARE NOT SO USEFUL
BECAUSE OF THEIR SIZE AND THE ASSOCIATED LOADING TIMES. <<<
A QUICK GUIDE FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T TO SURE ABOUT THIS...
1- Get Chad Randalls 'ICONIAN' Program from anywhere you can.
2- Set your Workbench screenmode to 256 colours and save it.
3- Load DeLuxe Paint and use 256 colours.
4- The default palette gives you a good range of colours, alter
it to suit your needs.
5- Save the altered palette to a place of your choosing.
6- Copy Chads SHOVECOLORS to your C directory.
7- Edit your user-startup and add SHOVECOLORS PALETTE .
(make sure you give the path name for the palette)
8- Reboot your machine.
If you don't understand these steps or can't get it working
then don't mess about with your startups or preferences to much, get a
friend to help you (if you haven't got any friends join an Amiga club
or get a modem and join the big club!). It would take too long to
explain every single move with every program...
When you set up a 256 colour workbench the system uses the
first four colours for the standard interface colour. The last four
colours it uses for its extended colour palette. These are both set
using the colour-wheel on workbench. Then, if you use a sixteen colour
picture for the backdrop these colours are placed from the bottom up
but after the four colours used by workbench. So by my maths that's 24
colours already accounted for. Add a different sixteen colour picture
for the windows and they will be stacked on top of the bottom twenty
already used, fourty colours used already! May not sound a lot but if
you need a wide range of colours they're disappearing fast and guess
what... The pointer needs another four.
If you are going to do a lot of the 'female form' like I
prefer then you do need a lot of browns and light flesh colours. If
not then just spread the colours as you need.
I would like to thank:
Chad Randall for Iconian.
Whoever it was that did the Playmate picture.
Anyone else who has done a pic that I have used! ;-)
Contact:
PAW / Chippie / Meeko BBS: UrBaN XTC +44(0)225 314269
(oNlINE 22:00 -> 08:00 UK tIME)
C. Randall Internet: crandall@garnet.msen.com