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#key color

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#109748From: MICHAEL BATESJun 26, 1994 8:47 PM
Hep me, hep me, I'm drownin! I'm trying to make a composition of two flics and have run into a trying situation. The area which I want to become transparent (key color) is actually not one color. It is a range of colors between (253,253,253) and (255,255,255). I'm importing 24bit pictures where the background is white. Is it possible to set the key color as a range??? I've got AAPro V1.0. Thanks , Michael. P.S. I will upgrade to AAPro V2.0 before the end of the year. That's the new version that will do 24Bit stuff, morphing and warping, sound, natural painting brush stroke effects, run in Chicago, be optimized for a Pentium, …. It's gonna be great!
#109751From: Mark YankeeJun 26, 1994 9:13 PM
One way to do that is to adjust the whole range of colors you want to be the same to the value 255,255,255 then use the command SQUEEZE from the VALUE menu and click OK. After that copy that color to the key color slot and run the SQUEEZE command with out changing anything one more time. If you have a lot of frames to do you could make a macro. Mark Yankee
#109775From: MICHAEL BATESJun 27, 1994 2:02 AM
Mark: Thanks, I'll give it a bash!! May take me some reading time though. It's about time a tried a macro 8^). However, I figured out a messy way to do it. I overlay it three times. First onto a (253,253,253) background and then that flc onto a (255,255,255) background. Finally I overlay the last flc onto the real background. … It works, I've just tried it. Not too elegant though. (I have six flc's, each about 30 frames long.) Michael B.