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Offline HornetUK

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losing the speckles
« on: June 28, 2013, 10:22:17 AM »
I have been tying to get my bump mat totally correct and it is being a pain.

I am having problems with losing the speckles in the solid shades.

I am trying to convert the file from a RGB to a Index. if you do it straight it does not work if you make it into a Gray scales and then into a index you get lots of fine noise in the background. as in if you have a area of gray which you have in the original RGB file it turn into a gray area which has lots of slightly different gray pixels when it was a solid block of colour to start of with.

Can someone help me with this?
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2013, 04:32:53 AM »
No worries I have solved it.
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2013, 07:56:31 AM »
Quote from: HornetUK on June 29, 2013, 04:32:53 AM
No worries I have solved it.

What did you do to solve it? Others may need that info someday.
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2013, 02:03:23 PM »
Sure you will ask if they need to know
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2013, 05:10:37 PM »
courtesy a little short across the pond?   :rolleyes:
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2013, 06:15:13 PM »
Quote from: The Fugitive on June 29, 2013, 05:10:37 PM
courtesy a little short across the pond?   :rolleyes:

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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2013, 09:28:55 PM »
You shouldn't place bump maps into a Indexed mode. Just make a grayscale bitmap.
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2013, 01:25:05 AM »
What he isn't telling you is that changing modes is not the way to go. You should use the "Desaturate" method instead.

In Photoshop that would be "Shft+Ctrl+U"

To get even better results use Illustrator.
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2013, 03:21:53 AM »
No I just ticked a box in the color profile section which fixed the problem.

Desaturate still leave trace parts of the colour
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2013, 04:58:35 PM »
And which checkbox was that? It's no secret I've been having problems with this and as of yet have not resolved them. Please, share your solution.
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2013, 01:50:16 AM »
Quote from: HornetUK on July 08, 2013, 03:21:53 AM
No I just ticked a box in the color profile section which fixed the problem.

Desaturate still leave trace parts of the colour

Desaturate takes all the color away, unless you have a porked version of the software. The whole reason it is available is for situations like this where changing modes causes anomalies.
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Re: losing the speckles
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2013, 04:59:10 AM »
Went back and looked you need to change your color profile setting. to as I have in the attached file. Well it worked for me.

My Photoshop is a full licences version, a part of Master Collection CS5.

Anyway chaps, my last post on the forum as I have quit Aces High. thanks for reading
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