#affect palette
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I'm not an artiste and maybe I've just missed it, but it seems like most
paint programs are missing a function which should be basic. I'm
especially interested in it because my main use for a paint program would
be touching up images imported through digiview. I assumed digipaint 3
would be able to do it, but if it can, I can't find it.
What I want to do is to be able to change a particular color, wherever it
appears. If an image has a dull, washed out yellow, I want to replace it
with a brighter one. Even better would be if it could do it like a fill,
to a restricted area. But for the life of me, except one pixel at a time,
I don't see a way to do it.
Can you help me? Am I asking too much?
—–Paul—-
Well, with a non-HAM paint program (DPaintIII, etc) it is trivial; two
ways: 1) just go to the palette and change the color you want altered….
bingo – done. 2) use stencils to freeze all colors you don't want changed,
and then you can change just small areas of the picture.
With a HAM paint program like DigiPaint III, though, I'm not sure if it can
be done. Even if the color you want to change *is* part of the palette,
you can't just go changing it without affecting a lot of other pixels. And
DigiPaint has no stencil cabability. (I'm not sure of SpectraColor has a
stencil mode or not?)
I can see the difficulties of implementing this in a HAM paint program,
tho. Any color that is not one of the 16 register colors is not really
'guaranteed' to be a specific shade in a HAM paint program. The program
just does as good a job as it can of getting to your chosen color. So it
would be difficult to exactly specify what colors you want modified. (but
I'm not saying it wouldn't be a good feature – just difficult)
–jp–seattle–
If you're using Digiview buy a Ham-E. If you have enough memory you can run
the Black Belt IP software that comes with it at the same time you run
Digiview. IP has a dynamic range function that has rescued many of my old
Digiview images – dramatic improvement. Black Belt is working cooperatively
with Newtek so if you have Digiview and you really want the best quality
out of it – check it out. Also be sure that you have enough light on your
subject. Your video camera should have Lux specifications. Use a light
meter and get the lights right. You'd be surprised how much it helps. Also
use a decent lens with an adjustable iris.
Thanks Margaret, I already have one 🙂
I've seen your work (and invested some online $$$$ downloading) on Black
Belt's BBS; very nice stuff. I *still* like your 'Jurrassic Strut' best,
however, even though you may cringe. I see potential movement there, which
is what excites me, I think.
I've just started usign DigiView with HAM-E/IP. Thanks for the tips on
using it. I'll try them.
–jp–seattle–
Talking about investing in on-line $$$$!. I'm going to assist my friend
Susan Lazear in Go Crafts as soon as she gets it going. However I'm taking
advantage of my "free" 2-Hr signup here. I've sent Black Belt images on
disk but not all of them make it to the board. I've done some nice Imagine
stuff. If you don't mind the download $$$, my best to date which is on
their board is Seawasp.Lzh. I used I.P 4.0 to make it. It took quite a
while and it is quite a frustration with the 68000 processor. Someday I get
the 3000 'till then it is SLOOOOOW going.
MC: are you working on an A500 or an A2000?
Michael – Whapping from the North
Coast
Amiga 1000 with 2.5megs
Margaret,
since upload time is free on CompuServe… would you mind sharing some
of your best work with us? It's always exciting to see what a talented
artist can create — much nicer than Yet Another Mirrored Ball And
Checkered Plane. <grin>
Blaq! – via Whap!
It's on here, too – we loved it, and cross-uploaded it here. :^)
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
This is the eye in the sky again. Ben I've sent you one disk with a file
called Finnies.lzh which is an Imagine ray trace. Did you ever get that
disk? It came out pretty nice and I've since lost the Imagine setup file
and can't recreate it exactly.
yes – I have finnies.24 on my hard drive; I'll pop it up on the BBS.
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S
SpectraColor has both stencil and reverse stencil.
Steve
Thanks. I hope Paul Wright (the original questioner) sees your message.
How does stencil work in Spectracolor? Since it's HAM mode, you cannot
just click on colors, can you?
–jp–seattle–
In SpectraColor you draw around the area to turn into a stencil, one area
at a time.
Steve
Image Professional can do this… using a color keyed merge from a buffer
filled with the new color… but You'd have to have the whole system. It's
a thought, though… :^)
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S