zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) (11/03/88)
Hi all... I have a problem with GIFFER 1.0 and its files that I thought some kind soul would be able to help me with... I have Giffer and a number of pictures in GIFf format. I can unpack them and display them fine on my macII, and I can also save them in PICT or Startupscreen format. Great. BUT, when I display these pictures using any other means, by using them as a startupscreen or by using Image or other graphics/image processors (PixelPaint, for example,) They show up fine BUT THEIR COLORS ARE ALL TOTALLY DIFFERENT! I presume this is because the current palette is different from the one used by the picture..however, Giffer manages to figure it out. Is there any way to save this 'palette data' so that the pictures would appear on a startupscreen with their own colors? or, is there a way to save the data in the form of an Image 'palette', a PixelPaint palette or an ATG-images CLUT? This question is being asked by a naive person, so the answer may be glaringly obvious...please feel free to explain this to me...basically I want to save the images as startupscreens with their own color schemes, but any method of importing the picture to anywhere I could edit it would be appreciated...Thanks! JBZimmerman! -- ___________ | "A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut || | with no holes is a danish." || ||acob Zimmerman!+> <zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> INTERNET === | <zimerman@PUCC> BITnet
t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP (Stephen Poole) (11/04/88)
In article <4234@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) writes: >PICT or Startupscreen format. Great. BUT, when I display these pictures >using any other means, by using them as a startupscreen or by using >Image or other graphics/image processors (PixelPaint, for example,) They >show up fine BUT THEIR COLORS ARE ALL TOTALLY DIFFERENT! I presume this The problem, as you noticed, is that the color palette is different. Although the palette is saved with a PICT, which is what your startupscreen document is, for some brain damaged reason the palette is ignored in startupscreens and the default Apple palette is used. I've never looked into this closely to see if there is some way around it. I doubt it -- the SUS is loaded before any INITs are loaded. What I've done is just use a picture that doesn't have any delicate shading. They typically look pretty good in the default palette. -- -- Stephen D. Poole -- t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP -- Mac II Fanatic -- -- -- -- I'm just an Oregon Tech Software Engineering co-op at Micro- -- -- soft. Believe me, nobody here pays attention to my opinions! --