ADPRO Suggestions
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I've got a request for you folks. It would help us out infinitely (well,
almost) if you could lock just *part* of the palette. In other words, if
I'm intending to output a 32-color IFF, I would like to specify what colors
16 through 31 will be, and leave 0-15 unlocked. Unless I'm missing out on
some easy way to do this, it's sort of a features hole in the program. On
another request note, it would also be great to be able to specify the
amount, and not just the type, of dither to use for a given conversion.
The included dithers tend to come out more "pixelated" than we like to see
things, and some sort of proportional gadget to change the amount of
dithering would do the trick just right. We absolutely love the rest of the
program.
Steve (Serial #'s available upon request)
You can do this already. Specify a 32 color screen in the palette control
panel but set a colors used to 16, color 0 index = 0. Then 0 to 15 will be
picked by ADPro but 16 through 31 won't be used. After having ADPro pick
its colors, you c{hoose yours, lock the palette, then tell ADPro to
rerender using all 32 (or not).
pk
Here's a suggestion for FRED which doesn't actually belong on this thread:
How bout an easy to get Bracketing option, like photographers use to take a
roll of film of the same shot with a range of aperature, speed, etc.
settings which barcket the settings they expect to need, then they pick the
best one. I had this in ARexx in the pre-FRED days, but you might as well
make it an animop or something. Users could produce a set of frames with
different gamma, dither, .. any settings really, from a single base image..
I'm not sure right no
w if it is easy to copy one frame to many… probably the stamps should
reflect the settings also.. whadd'ya think ??
good one Aki!
That's close, but still not quite what we need. If you're doing a few
dozen screens, it's a bit tedious to have to manually set colors 16-31 for
each and every picture. Also, given that the other 16 colors will actually
be used for each picture, there is a chance for redundency (sp?). A 16
color unlocked palette might use colors that we already have in our "fixed"
palette. I suppose the whole thing might be done with a relatively
complicated ARexx script, but something similar to DPaint's Stencil tool
would be much easier to use.
Steve