I know that in today's day and age nobody creates a 16 color graphic. However, I have a situation that requires me to create a 16 color PCX graphic output. I have tries several ways but the client says that they all come up 256 when testing on his system. Does someone have a neat trick on how I can create the type of graphic I need. (I have also tries to create my graphic only using the 16 colors).
Also, does anyone out there have a copy of ZSoft PC Paintbrush. I used to have a copy but do not know where I have stored it. If you know where I can find a copy that would be great too.
Stuck in 16 color limbo,
Mel
#1
Jump to or open your image in image ready, select giff, drag the colors slider down to 16, then save as a giff. IF you then open this in photoshop you get a indexed graphic with only 16 colors. Thats one way of doing it, not sure if it will help in your circumstances.
#2
Thanks for the advice, I have tried you suggestion and I have sent it off to the client for testing - got my fingers crossed.
Mel
#3
Isn't the default color palette in a PCX the same as in a 16-color BMP? You might otherwise get 16 colors, but will they be the right 16? I suppose you could create a 16-color BMP in Windows Paint, read into Photoshop, and save as PCX.
#4
It worked!!!! Thanks a whole bunch. I now feel totally embarassed that I did think of this forum before now because I have been working on this problem for 4 months off and on. Here's my new process, create the graphics using only the 16 colors, do the image ready thing, open the file in a DOS program called Neopaint and save the file as a PCX.
Customer is really please I stuck it out and now I can sell him one of our packages and re-coup my development time --- sooo I will probably make about $0.25 / hr after all is said and done.
Again, thanks for the great hint and thanks to Adobe for supporting these forums.
Cheers,
Mel
#5
Your welcome Mel, dont leave it so long next time :-)
#6