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A view of some 1930s drama to promote the text stories at the Spontoon Island website. Surprised tourist, news reporter, and a student at a flying academy (Songmark Aeronautical Boarding School for Young Ladies).
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Paintshop Pro 5. Scanned at a size of pixel-per-inch so that it is at least twice as big as the final resolution. In this case, a scan at 300 ppi makes it about 3 times as big. With my scanner software, I've taken to scanning in greyscale and then editing to black and white to save a line version. Then up to 256 colors, which I usually do by uploading a palette to the picture.
The secret ingredient is that I am using a 256 color palette originally used by Entertainment Arts (which was the default 256-color for the DeluxePaint software). It has a lot of color ranges in intuitive areas like about 3 ranges of blue and 3 of green, as examples. (Not all of the ranges are that large).
Then a cel color fill with the paintbucket. Then cel-style shadow areas, and blobs and lines of highlights, and some line coloring with a color-replacer button. (The original size may be somewhat sloppy in color details. Most little glitches will be lost in the coming reduction.)
When finished, make a copy, go up to 16 million colors, reduce to websize, back to 256 colors, and save.
When I'm going down to 256 colors, sometimes I will load up the DeluxePaint palette, other times I will let the computer choose it's own 256 nearest colors. At that control box, I also sometimes go to 'dither' or sometimes to nearest color in the palette. I'm still learning to anticipate how it will look, but it often depends on the end effect. Nowadays I may check it out 2 or 3 different ways. For retro style pictures, why not have dither texture showing? It looks retro.
More than you wanted to know?
Ken
The secret ingredient is that I am using a 256 color palette originally used by Entertainment Arts (which was the default 256-color for the DeluxePaint software). It has a lot of color ranges in intuitive areas like about 3 ranges of blue and 3 of green, as examples. (Not all of the ranges are that large).
Then a cel color fill with the paintbucket. Then cel-style shadow areas, and blobs and lines of highlights, and some line coloring with a color-replacer button. (The original size may be somewhat sloppy in color details. Most little glitches will be lost in the coming reduction.)
When finished, make a copy, go up to 16 million colors, reduce to websize, back to 256 colors, and save.
When I'm going down to 256 colors, sometimes I will load up the DeluxePaint palette, other times I will let the computer choose it's own 256 nearest colors. At that control box, I also sometimes go to 'dither' or sometimes to nearest color in the palette. I'm still learning to anticipate how it will look, but it often depends on the end effect. Nowadays I may check it out 2 or 3 different ways. For retro style pictures, why not have dither texture showing? It looks retro.
More than you wanted to know?
Ken
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