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Offline PGitTopic starter

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Workbench pictures
« on: December 27, 2003, 06:07:01 PM »
Is there a way (without having to buy a graphics card) that I can get Workbench to display backdrops better. Even on a 128 colour screen, a 64 colour image looks bad.
I'm using an A1200 030 16mb WB 3.0 with Birdie, Newicons, FastIprefs, Fblit and MCP.

Thanks for you time.
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Offline Matt_H

Re: Workbench pictures
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2003, 06:34:56 PM »
In WB3.5+ there are some image quality controls in the WBPattern prefs. I can't recall if they're in 3.0/3.1.

If you can spare the Chip RAM, you might want to increase the WB screen depth to 256 and find a backdrop to match.

Anyone got any other ideas?
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Offline Lemonty

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Re: Workbench pictures
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2003, 07:13:51 PM »
Yes, using ADPro or ImageFX, you could 'grab' the Workbench's palette and use this palette to remap the colours of your desired picture. Using the Floyd-Steinberg dither worked especially good for me.

Good luck!
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Offline jeffimix

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Re: Workbench pictures
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2003, 09:33:27 PM »
Or you can make your own backdrop using the workbench colors...
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Offline carls

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Re: Workbench pictures
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2003, 09:54:15 PM »
Adjust the image quality setting in FasIPref's replacement of of the Backdrop preferences program. If you have window backdrops they steal colours, too. Back in the days when I was running on AGA I got very good results on a 64-colour Workbench using 32-colour backdrops so it shouldn't really be a problem.
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