#12533 - Nytegard - Mon Nov 17, 2003 3:41 am
Using photoshop 7.
I have a series of tiles that add up to 255 colours. Is there a way to move a colour from one spot into another spot on the colour table, and have all the effected pixels change also?
(I'm trying to optimze the palette for a combination of 2 layers in 256 colour mode, and 2 in 16 colour).
#12534 - DekuTree64 - Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:19 am
There's a thing called PaletteTool in the graphics tools section at the main site that will do what you want. Photoshop really does have a crappy palette editor, but I have yet to find a drawing program with a better one.
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#12540 - Sweex - Mon Nov 17, 2003 11:35 am
I drew the graphics for Critical Velocity in Photoshop (32bpp) and then converted it to 8bit using Paintshop Pro. You get some quality loss as opposed to drawing everything in 8 bpp but I like photoshop best for drawing.
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#12548 - Nessie - Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:48 pm
Hopefully they've improved the colour reduction algorithms in newer versions of PaintShop Pro? Older versions (I have v4.12) have absolutley horrid colour reduction.
#12579 - Sweex - Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:10 pm
You can download an evaluation version of Paintshop Pro 8 from their site...
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#13568 - cosmic4z - Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:52 am
You could try ProMotion ... by cosmigo.
http://cosmigo.com/promotion/index.php
This tool rocks!
Ideal for creating 8bit (256 colour) images for your GBA games.
It even has build in palette quantizer / colour reduction so you can convert 256 colour tiles to 16 / 16 colour tiles ... (although it seems a bit basic at doing this compared to professional tools).
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#13569 - Nessie - Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:02 am
Graphics Gale http://tempest-j.com/gale/e/ is also pretty good for doing low colour work. It can shuffle colours around without mucking up your artwork....shift + left-click...then drag to where you want it.
Supports layers and frames (for animation).
#14265 - headspin - Sat Jan 03, 2004 3:29 pm
Just a warning: PaletteTool only works for 256 colour images, so if your working with 16 colour tiles/palettes, try GraphicsGale instead
#14532 - superx10 - Thu Jan 08, 2004 1:55 am
I'm not really familiar with it myself, but a friend of mine tells me that PSP 7 isn't half bad at color reduction. You've got to keep in mind that photoshop is really geared for people that want to do high-end graphics, and so it's believed that no one in their right minds would want to reduce the # of colors. Except us, of course.
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#14544 - LOst? - Thu Jan 08, 2004 4:47 am
| Nytegard wrote: |
Using photoshop 7.
I have a series of tiles that add up to 255 colours. Is there a way to move a colour from one spot into another spot on the colour table, and have all the effected pixels change also?
(I'm trying to optimze the palette for a combination of 2 layers in 256 colour mode, and 2 in 16 colour). |
You got the exact same problem as me. I can't move the palettes >.<;;
I also want to have 16 color sprites and backgrounds because it's more like the old games, and you can have some cool effects and different colours on the same sprites, like Street Fighter II games have
#14572 - beelzebub - Thu Jan 08, 2004 8:39 pm
Personally I use BitEdit.EXE from a bit of freeware from Microsoft's Video for Windows tools (from around 1992) - it only works with BMP files but has the best palette editing I've seen. You can select one or more colour(s) and move them around within your palette. Means you can easy create a single 256 colour palette which has the transparent colours in the right places for your palette to really be 16 16 colour palettes.
Have an ftp search and you'll find it somewhere on the web.
#14728 - headspin - Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:25 am
The tools mentioned above are available at the following link http://www.interfold.com/rabit/downloads/palpatch.exe