thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) (11/30/88)
Programs that allow one to change the background screen to graphic images are great IF that image has colors which are reasonably close to the system CLUT. This breaks down when the pictures have subtle coloring like fleshtones... So my question is...how does one change the system CLUT so that it is in agreement with a given background picture. I haven't seen any background screen programs which do this and there probably aren't any because such a process violates the way color is supposed to be implemented as written in the preface to Inside Mac Vol. 5. But I still want to do it! I know it can be done because some messy graphics programs change the clut and then forget to change it back after exiting, hence the picture looks really bad. I haven't been able to find any CLUT resources in the sytem except the small finder one that controls the icon colors. I realize that this will make some things messy, but I have no problems with an apple colored in fleshtones rather than a rainbow if it makes for an incredible background screen... Thanks... Thomas Summerall thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
rdsesq@Jessica.stanford.edu (Rob Snevely) (11/30/88)
The best way to I've found to reset the CLUT is with Klutz a p/d da that will apply build and save CLUTs. You can also change it using res-edit. Open up the clut resource and convert the Red green and blue values to hex. You can change the colors in the finders color menu this way. If anybody out there is interested, I can e-mail you a copy of Klutz or if there is enough interest, I can post it to binaries. rob ****** DON'T BLAME ME!! I VOTED FOR BILL AND OPUS!! ******
stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) (11/30/88)
In article <11235@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> thomas@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thomas Summerall) writes: | Programs that allow one to change the background screen to | graphic images are great IF that image has colors which | are reasonably close to the system CLUT. | This breaks down when the pictures have subtle coloring | like fleshtones... | So my question is...how does one change the system CLUT so | that it is in agreement with a given background picture. | I haven't seen any background screen programs which do | this and there probably aren't any because such a process | violates the way color is supposed to be implemented as | written in the preface to Inside Mac Vol. 5. I run a mind numbing series of init's to get this to work for me. I currently use: ScreenMaster: This will load a copy of a graphic into memory and adjust the clut. Also provided is an init to reset the clut after the picture is desposed from the screen. (I leave this init out because I want the new clut to be remembered). DeskPicture: This will load the graphic again, but will retain it as the desk top picture. If you have DeskPicture load in the same graphic that was previously loaded in by ScreenMaster, then the clut is already loaded (something that DeskPicture will not do) ScreenMaster is ShareWare, and may do desktop pics sometime in the future. DeskPicture, I believe is in the Public Domain. I make the process more complex by having two minitors (one mono the other colour) and wanted to have backdrops on both monitors. Yes, this is possible. The init to do so, called ColorDesk, by Paul Mercer, is a comercial application and is available as part of the Screen Gems package. ColorDesk alows you to pick which monitor you want your desktop pic to reside on (a choice that other cdev/init's do not give you.. now if only it would do multiple monitors.. then I could throw away all my other inits.. yeh!!.. hows about it Paul?) | Thanks... Hope this helps. Stu. BTW, if I get inundated with requests to send ScreenMaster of DeskPicture to people, I'll post it to the comp.binaries.mac. __Paths to my door:______________________ stuartb@microsof.beaver.cs.washington.edu stuartb%microsof@uw-beaver.arpa stuartb@microsof.uucp _________________________________________ Usual disclaimer, that all the above is pure fantasy and Microsoft only gave me the Mountain Dew to dream it all in a caffeine haze :-{) :-{) _______________________________________________________________________