Hi Phoebus,
Phoebus Dokos escribio':
Την Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:14:45 -0500,ο(η) Phoebus Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε/wrote:
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The RAWtoSCR idea is a very old one... as a matter of fact there is an article on the web somewhere from a guy that does what you do in perl. I use my own photoshop filter to prepare the thing. I would distribute it but it needs the damn Photoshop SDK (some 45 Megs worth of stuff) and I haven't had time (as usual) to sit down and make it in usable form
Now I saw that you are actually mentioning that specific article.
There's a lot more that you can do with RAW files, namely convert to Mode 16 and 33/32.
Of course the plain 4/8 colour modes are okay but the Thor and Aurora with their 16 and 256 colour modes (for the latter Aurora only) are not covered.
I also have a small program (I have given a version to Dilwyn and he had it online IIRC) that did just that with additional Thor and Aurora graphics modes (plus ultra hi-res Mode 4 screens for uQLx for example)
I know. The idea to use a new method was born of that article that you say to me and I mention.
There are several considerations. The method that I propose in the article is advantageous front to the other by several reasons:
1.- I can use especific customized colour palettes who can be in 4, 8, 16, 32... or 256 colours. In the article it is spoken exclusively of 4 and 8 colors because the Spanish users of QL do not enjoy greater resolutions habitually, and it's better don't complicate with nonnecessary information the article to focus the attention on the method.
2.- All the work of creation, modification and adjustment can do directly in the photographic program, and can turn and see the result before even transfer the image to the QL. Next, single be necessary overturn the result in the QL. The colors already appear in their correct order because they have been added correctly in the different customized palettes.
3.- By the saying previously, any effect, filter or resize can also be applied in programs like Photoshop or The Gimp even after haver fact the conversion to the suitable color palette, previously to the transfer to the QL. Even, the indexed color tool of Photoshop allows to fit the plotted and the degree of diffusion.
Truely it's much more interesting to have programs in the QL that does this, but the article that I wrote exclusively tried to take the maximum advantage of the images treatment programs most commonly used.
4.- The small proposed program of conversion is easily modifiable for each one of the different modes and resolutions of screen, and the method to view the image in the QL is as simple as to use a "POINT" by point.
The method proposed in my article is then less automatic, but it offers much greater control on the result that what it was possible to be obtained with the article that we said before.
I am going to try prove your program, because it interests much this subject to me.
As you can see in my messages in the forum, I still consider an apprentice, for that reason, any received commentary is appreciated.
I only hope that my terrible English, so direct, will not bad interpreted or considered like an impoliteness. It's very dificult to find the exact phrase when the language is not known, for that reason I hope don't be arrogant in my answers. What would be of me without my automatic translator! :)
Regards
Javier Guerra Sinclair QL Spanish Resources http://sinclairql.info
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