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Title: What Color Mode Do You Work In?
Post by: Vraciu on March 20, 2014, 07:48:45 PM

I have been working in 16M colors but have noticed that when I reduce to 256K I am getting a lot of pixilation.   Any suggestions on how to reduce this phenomenon?    It seems to be worse since I started blending more colors into the skin and am wondering what I can do to limit this.

Thanks.

Title: Re: What Color Mode Do You Work In?
Post by: GhostCDB on March 20, 2014, 09:02:20 PM

Do you not switch to RGB mode automatically?

Title: Re: What Color Mode Do You Work In?
Post by: Vraciu on March 20, 2014, 09:13:51 PM

Quote from: GhostCDB on March 20, 2014, 09:02:20 PM

Do you not switch to RGB mode automatically?

Speaking Greek to me there bro.

Title: Re: What Color Mode Do You Work In?
Post by: Saxman on March 20, 2014, 10:15:25 PM

Make sure you're using an adaptive palette.

Unfortunately, depending on the complexity of the skin you're going to end up with SOME pixelation. REALLY wish they'd update the engine to accept RGB DDS files.

Title: Re: What Color Mode Do You Work In?
Post by: Vraciu on March 21, 2014, 12:44:58 AM

Quote from: Saxman on March 20, 2014, 10:15:25 PM

Make sure you're using an adaptive palette.

Unfortunately, depending on the complexity of the skin you're going to end up with SOME pixelation. REALLY wish they'd update the engine to accept RGB DDS files.

Adaptive palette.  I will look that up.  I am, sadly, using PaintShop Pro 5.1, that's how far behind the times I am. 

Title: Re: What Color Mode Do You Work In?
Post by: Greebo on March 21, 2014, 02:50:04 AM

I use a freeware program called Bright to convert my skins to 256 colours. It does a much better job of this than Paint Shop Pro. You can get it here (http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/downloads.php?do=cat&id=1) at the Simmers Paint Shop download site. There is a plug-in version for Photoshop although I use the DOS batch file version personally.

Title: Re: What Color Mode Do You Work In?
Post by: HornetUK on March 21, 2014, 04:45:02 AM

I use the same little program greebo does and I am using photoshop. Works great with my RGB files

Title: Re: What Color Mode Do You Work In?
Post by: Vraciu on March 21, 2014, 06:21:57 AM

 :aok Thanks guys!

Title: Re: What Color Mode Do You Work In?
Post by: Vraciu on March 21, 2014, 07:29:17 PM

Brighter is so much better than PSP for this.  NO pixilation so far.