Please Help! I'm sure it must be easy to do this...
Shirley Worrall
I'll be very grateful if anyone can help me with this!
I'm trying to make a web page for the place where I work. I've scanned
and saved as a .gif (and a .bmp) a black and white pencil drawing of
the front of our offices. The intention is to use this on the home
page and as a tiled background on other pages.
I can't use the .gif as it is because the pencil is thick and so
'black' that it would be impossible to read any text written on top of
it. I've downloaded Paint Shop Pro version 4.14 and tried everything
to try to change the black to grey (I assume that this is what I need
to do because I've seen the effect that I want on another web page
(at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/12NewSquare/), but I
can't seem to make anything work! I have managed to 'crop' the image,
so the program must be working, but I don't seem to be able to change
the colour/shade of black in the image.
When I move the cursor over the colour palette the colours change
according to where the cursor is, but it doesn't seem possible to
actually select any colour using either mouse button. As soon as I
move the cursor away from the palette the colours disappear.
I've read and re-read the help files and followed the instructions but
I'm getting absolutely no-where. Now I'm getting desperate! PLEASE can
someone help me? I'm sure I must be making some really stupid mistake
or oversight but I just can't think of what to do next.
Very many thanks in advance for any help,
--
Shirley Worrall
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Shena Delian O'Brien
Shirley Worrall wrote:
>
> it. I've downloaded Paint Shop Pro version 4.14 and tried everything
> to try to change the black to grey (I assume that this is what I need
>
and play around with those. I think you'll find what you're looking for
there.
> When I move the cursor over the colour palette the colours change
> according to where the cursor is, but it doesn't seem possible to
> actually select any colour using either mouse button. As soon as I
> move the cursor away from the palette the colours disappear.
>
The image might be in b&w format. Go to Colors->Increase Color
Depth->16 Million Colors.
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s...@dial.pipex.com (Shirley Worrall) wrote:
Try increasing the colors to 16 mil then use
colors>colorize
and
colors>adjust>gamma correction
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David and/or Jackie Laderoute
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:12:40 GMT, s...@dial.pipex.com (Shirley Worrall)
wrote:
>I'll be very grateful if anyone can help me with this!
>
>I'm trying to make a web page for the place where I work. I've scanned
>and saved as a .gif (and a .bmp) a black and white pencil drawing of
>the front of our offices. The intention is to use this on the home
>page and as a tiled background on other pages.
>
>I can't use the .gif as it is because the pencil is thick and so
>'black' that it would be impossible to read any text written on top of
>it. I've downloaded Paint Shop Pro version 4.14 and tried everything
>to try to change the black to grey...
[snip]
There's several ways you can do that:
1. Open your image. Go to "Colors", "Decrease Color Depth", "2 colors".
Choose "Grey Values", "Weighted", "Nearest Color". Then go to "Colors",
Edit Palette" and you will see two squares. Double-click on the black
one to open the colour selection box and select your light grey (240,
240, 240 makes a nice web page background). Click "OK" then "OK" again
and there you are. Try it with other pastel shades, too - can look nice
if you have a "corporate color" that you use the lighter shade of for
the background. Note that you can do it without decreasing the colour
values, but you'd generally have to do the replacement on several
palette entries).
2. Open your gif. Go to "Masks", "New", "From Image" and select "This
Window" in the Source Window box, check "Source Luminence" and "Invert
Mask Data." Flood fill the image with your lighter color.
3. Use the "Color Replacer" tool. Set your background to black, your
foreground to the lighter shade and draw over the image to change the
colors (this is handy for things with anti-aliased edges, because you
can set tolerance higher to get all the shades). You can set the brush
size up to 200, which will make it go quite quickly (try using some
paper textures to get a graffiti effect, too).
See - I never even *mentioned* the opacity trick ;-).
Jackie
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Shirley Worrall
>I'll be very grateful if anyone can help me with this!
>
>I'm trying to make a web page for the place where I work. I've scanned
>and saved as a .gif (and a .bmp) a black and white pencil drawing of
>the front of our offices. The intention is to use this on the home
>page and as a tiled background on other pages.
>
<snip>
I'd just like to thank all those who gave me the answer to this
problem so quickly, both on the newsgroup and in private email. This
is definitely one of the most helpful groups I've ever visited!
Thanks very much indeed :-)