Paint Shop Pro IFF Image colouring

[Thomas]

The default colors are as follows (created by "reset to defailts" from the menu):

Pointer:

Red: 224 4 64
Black: 0 0 0
Light beige: 224 244 192

Screen:

Grey: 170 170 170
Black: 0 0 0
White: 255 255 255
Light blue: 85 119 179

And for Kickstart 1.3:

Pointer:

Red: 221 34 34
Black: 0 0 0
Grey: 170 187 204

Screen:

Blue:  0 85 170
Write: 255 255 255
Black: 0 0 34
Orange: 255 136 0

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

know of any less-expensive PC program that will import IFF files?

http://www.irfanview.com/

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

Your colours seem to be different to those on my system. What OS are you running and do you have anything along the lines of MUI that might affect the colouring?

I got them from WinUAE running OS 3.9 and Picasso96, nothing else.

I tried again with Kick / WB 3.1 and got these:

grey 170 170 170
black 0 0 0
white 255 255 255
blue 102 136 187

I'll retry with 3.0 once I find one of my AmigaForever CDs.

On that note, what programs / parts of the OS are affected by reducing the screen setting down to 4 colours? Any exceptions? I see programs that open into their own screen aren’t affected, and as already pointed out, the pointer isn't restricted by this. From my tinkerings the background quite definitely is.

Different screens have different screen modes and depths so the depth of the Workbench screen only affects programs which open their windows on that screen. All programs which run on the same screen share the properties of it. There are no exceptions.

Hardware sprites (e.g. the mouse pointer) have their own DMA channel. They always have four colors, no matter what the current screen mode is.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

What about the circular colour selector in Pallete? Even in 4 colour mode it still displays a full range of colours.

No, it doesn't. If the screen has only four colours, the gadget cannot have more than four colours, either.

The only possibility is a truecolour screen on a graphics card. Here the screen mode (more precise: the pixel format) defines the number of colours. The depth setting only limits the number of pens for drawing, not the number of colours.

The (new) palette gadget has logic built in which asks the bitmap if it is on a graphics card or not. If the depth of the bitmap is 8 or smaller, then it uses pens for drawing, otherwise it uses the graphics card's truecolour functions.

Thats the same as I got for WB3.0.

Well, above you quoted 198 198 198 for grey. I don't remember ever having seen these. It's a little bit too bright for my taste. Actually all of the colours are a little but too grey for my taste. I prefer a blue background and orange window borders similar to those of WB 1.3.

Bye,
Thomas