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TOO_HOT.PNT 14-Feb-1993 16:21 70k
SEE PICTUREWARE REGISTRATION / OFFER BELOW
---- ABOUT TOO_HOT.PNT ----
Copyright 1993 by Richard Brown Associates (RBA)
TOO_HOT.PNT is unique among color images in that it has a shifted palette
making it ideal for use as a Warp 9 desktop. Most color PNT images tend to
shift window colors, and TOO_HOT.PNT was no exception. Its color scheme
REVERSED all window colors, with white text against black, making the TT
less than comfortable to use.
In Prism Paint, the color palette of an imported GIF or IFF file usually
looks like this:
NORMAL PALETTE COLORS:
1 -----> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ---> 16
BLACK ---> DARK SHADES -----> LIGHTER SHADES ---> WHITE
To shift the palette, the white and the black - 15 colors away from each
other at the opposite end of the 16 color spectrum - had to be reversed,
keeping the other 14 colors unchanged:
SHIFTED PALETTE COLORS:
1 -----> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ---> 16
WHITE ---> DARK SHADES -----> LIGHTER SHADES ---> BLACK
By reversing just the white and black positions, the palette becomes
"normal" for the purposes of the TT medium resolution desktop.
Unfortunately, there is no convenient way to do this in TT medium
resolution, therefore, once the black and white were flipped, all black
pixels and all white pixels had to be redrawn by hand, pixel by pixel by
pixel by pixel by pixel by pixel by pixel... and so on and on and on...
Sure, portions were easily replaced using the fill feature of Prism Paint,
but the thousands upon thousands of interior pixels had to be manually
replaced to recreate the original look of the image. Over ten hours of
magnified pixel editing later, the result was a PNT format image with a
very strange palette that actually worked perfectly as a Warp 9 Desktop.
Desktop windows would now pop up non-reversed. Document windows featured
black text on a white background - and all other functions sported
"normalcy."
HOW THE PICTURE WAS MADE:
Image
Source: Professional video
Frame Grab: Primary Grab was accomplished in a high end video editing
facility, using a Digital Time Base Corrector (TBC) to
freeze a field, or one-half of a video frame, which
effectively stopped the image motion. Then:
Conversion: ON A GVC MODIFIED AMIGA:
Newtek Video Toaster grabbed the TBC's field freeze, saved
as a frame, converted in Toaster Paint to a 24 bit IFF
RGB image at 752x480 pixels. Art Department Professional
cropped the image back to 640x480 and reduced the color
palette to 4 bit, or 16 colors. Once converted, the image's
contrast and colors were optimized for 16 color display.
The image was saved out as a GIF file, then, using Cross
DOS, the image was converted to an IBM formatted floppy and
transported to the Atari TT.
On the TT: Using Prism Paint, the image's palette was optimized for TT
medium resolution, saved as a PNT 640x480x16, and tested as
a desktop picture: thus started the palette trick
previously discussed.
PICTUREWARE (A SHAREWARE IDEA)
After toiling, pixel by pixel to the point of wrist numbness and finger
pain, it dawned on me that no one should want to do this sort of thing
without some form of compensation, even as a spare time deal.
So, here's a deal to consider or ignore:
* Send a DS/DD (TOS/DOS formatted or not) disk
* Your return address
* Your registration fee: a check or money order for $15 payable to:
Richard Brown Associates
6278 N. Federal Highway, Suite 406
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33308
and I'll return your disk chock-full of various images, from G to R-rated,
all of them of excellent quality. Please specify the formats you want by
machine resolution and file type. See order form below.
WHY IT'S WORTH IT: THE ULTIMATE GRAPHICS SOLUTION
If you do register with RBA, we'll put you on our mailing list, keeping
you informed of other graphic products we may bring to the ST/TT/Falcon
market, including DTP-oriented graphics like TIF, CVG, and EPS files
created exclusively for Atari user support. Registered users will be
entitled to discounts on these other graphics packages. All images we
produce are copyrighted to our company or to the individual image
producers involved. Rights to use will be granted to purchasers by written
agreement.
Our graphics capability is reasonably phenomenol: 1200 dpi color/gray
scale scanning is our _low end_ flat art scanning system working from our
35mm, 6x6cm, and 4x5 inch photographic originals (in-house photo studio).
In video, we have Hi-8, Super VHS, 3/4 SP, Beta SP, One Inch, and D2
digital formats at our disposal for frame grabbing.
We have Ataris, Amigas, DOS and Mac machines online, running _everything_.
Currently, we are in the production stages of a Photo CD package for the
DOS world which will probably be in a format Atari CD users will be able
to read.
So, if you wish, print this out as an order blank:
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ORDER FORM
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Richard Brown Associates $15 PICTURE DEAL
6278 N. Federal Highway, Suite 406 $15 PICTURE DEAL
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33308 $15 PICTURE DEAL
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Send to:
Name: ______________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________
City: ______________________________________________
State: _________________ Zip: __________________
To select an item --------------------------> Check This Box
combinations are OK. :
:
ST Low: Degas 16 color (PI1) :
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ST Low: Spectrum 512 (SPC) :
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ST High: Monochrome (PI3) :
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TT Low: 256 color (PNT) :
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TT Low: 256 color (GIF) :
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TT Medium: 16 color (PNT) :
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TT Medium: 16 color (GIF) :
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Files will arrive on your disk, folder separated:
R_RATED folder
G_RATED folder
GOODIES folder - shareware and freeware things
you may find of use. (To fill
up the space that's left.)