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- RECOLOR 1.01
- JUNE 7, 1987
-
- By Stephen Vermeulen
- 3635 Utah Dr. N.W.,
- Calgary, Alberta,
- CANADA, T2N 4A6
-
- Copyright (C) 1987 By Stephen Vermeulen
- This version may be freely redistributed
- so long as not charge is made for such
- distribution.
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- 0.0 Introduction
-
- Recolor is a program that addresses the problem of changing the colour
- palette of one picture to suit that of another. This problem commonly
- happens when you have started work on a painting and you wish to merge
- part of another painting into your painting. However, you usually find
- that the two paintings have incompatible palettes, so upon merging in
- the new painting you find you have some work to do to correct the
- colours. This program does this colour correction for you, automatically!
-
- Recolor also handles the problem of reducing the size of a painiting's
- palette. This occurs when art created with 32 colours must be merged
- into a display or picture with 16, 8, 4, or even 2 colours. Because of
- this ability, Recolor can be used with Iconize to reduce the size and
- colour content of a picture automatically and make a WorkBench icon for the
- picture that is a miniture of the picture.
-
- Of course the files that Recolor works with are all IFF ILBM type files
- so it is fully compatible with the rest of your Amiga software.
-
- 1.0 Running Recolor
-
- Recolor can only be run from the CLI (this will probably be fixed soon).
- There are two ways of invoking it. First just typing:
-
- recolor
-
- will result in the copyright notice, short instructions, and the version
- number being printed. By typing a command of the following format:
-
- recolor input.pic output.pic newpalette.pic
-
- Recolor will process the "input.pic" file, modifing it so that it uses
- the palette of the picture file called "newpalette.pic" and then saving
- the result in the file "output.pic".
-
- 2.0 Memory Usage
-
- Recolor needs to allocate 2 complete picture buffers, so if you have a 512K
- machine you might find it difficult to Recolor HiRes 16 colour pictures.
- Recolor works REAL NICE on a 2.5Meg Amiga!
-
- 3.0 The newpalette.pic file
-
- This file is a standard IFF picture file that has the palette (colour map)
- that you wish the input picture to be adjusted to use. Some drawing programs
- allow you to save just the palette of a picture, you can use this option
- if it exists, if not just use the entire picture or a brush.
-
- 4.0 Making Icons of Pictures
-
- To make icons for the WorkBench that are minitures of the actual pictures
- do the following steps:
-
- 1. Recolor the picture to use the WorkBench's palette.
- 2. Iconize the picture to the desired size.
- 3. Convert the recolored and iconized picture to a true
- WorkBenck icon with the Brush2Icon program.
-
- 5.0 Support
-
- Any comments, suggestions, or bug reports you might care to make will be
- gratefully received. If you are interested in seeing this program improve
- much send a contribution ($10-$20 to me at the address above). My current
- policy on improving the program is to release a new version for every 5
- contributions I receive, or when I need a new feature!
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