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#Tinting the Grays

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#62744From: Carl FinchOct 21, 1993 4:13 PM
I would like to be able to tint black and white photos (I have only a black and white scanner). Is there an easy way to do this with AAPRO (version 1.0)? I imagine Photoshop, et al, can do this, but $$… I have tried creating gradient clusters and using Glass ink, but it doesn't work very well. What I'd _like_ is an ink that, say, replaces a color in Cluster A with a _corresponding_ color in Cluster B. Am I missing something?–it's been a while since I really dug into the manual!
#62757From: MARTIN G FOSTEROct 21, 1993 5:36 PM
I'm sure you could do this with aapro, one way or another. I'd think the sep (seperate) and fill tools would be useful in this regard. Sep in particular has some nice features for seperating out entire colours or areas of colour (or shade of gray, in the case of black and white photos) as a single colour, or near colour, or cluster. You might want to look at the great tutorials to see this in use. The only problem I could see would be the annoying 256 colour limitation. You'd to set up an appropriate pallette with the existing grays, plus the colours you want to use for tinting/colourizing. Like I said, it can be done but a full-featured paint package might do it better. Good luck.
#62773From: Yost GroupOct 21, 1993 7:37 PM
In addition to what Martin said, you've got to make sure that the Fit button is off when you do those tinting operations.