Photo Shop 7

[TrueKill]

to any1 that uses PhotoShop7 how do i change the colors from 24bit to 8bit i cant find where to do it the onlyway i can is open it with PaintShopPro8 and that messes it up cuz it says it can open the PHS file and makes everything not blend together.

[Krusty]

It should be a matter of Image > Mode > indexed (then pick 256 colors, which is 8 bit)

That's in 6.0, but I think the menus are the same.

[Cobra412]

Krusty is absolutley correct.

[Dux]

Yup, what Krusty said. Photoshop uses slightly different terms. "Indexed" is 8-bit color.

It won't work if you have layers going on.


The best way to save down to 8-bit in PS:

Save your original "master" file, with all of its layers and effects intact.

Do a "Save as..." and make a copy of the file, in BMP format. Uncheck the "layers" checkbox. Choose 24-bit.

Close the master file.

Open your new, flattened, 24-bit copy.

Change color mode. Image->Mode->Indexed.

Use these exact options...
Palette: Local (adaptive)
Forced: None
Dither: Diffusion

Click Okay, then quit out, save changes.


If you need to alter the skin again, open and work on the master, not the copy you made.


Check out this thread at AH-Skins.com for deeper info.
http://www.ah-skins.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=38

[B17Skull12]

i save a psp file for future work then save as 24bit file.  i then use bright to convert it to 256 color but pcx image file.  i then open that with psp7 and save as a bitmap.  it will be 8b:)

[TrueKill]

B17Skull12
i then use bright to convert it to 256 color

i installed the bright program to but dont know how to use it eather. how do i?

[blue308]

the best and fastest way to do it is to use a photoshop plugin, that adds Bright as an export option in photoshop "file->export" menu. You can download the plugin from Skinner's Heaven -> Tools Section . It's called Foo.Bar's Bright Plugin for Photoshop 7, and it works grrrreat. Saves A LOT of time

[TrueKill]

yea i got it downloaded but how do i use it. what does it do

[blue308]

You need to unzip the file into Your C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Plug-Ins\Import-Export  directory, then when working on a skin, when You want to convert it to 8bit indexed You go to File->Export->Bright. You choose a directory and a name for the file You are saving, and it will be saved as an indexed bmp file, ready to use with AH II.