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# Trying to make this for work


I know, I know...it doesn't need to be good or anything but I can't work out how to keep the background colours flat when I save it in ImageReady.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:22, archived)
# hahaha.. spiffing
what program are you using?
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:23, archived)
# Raaahhh!!!
Ninja edit!
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:23, archived)
# ahh in oven ready, you`ve got little tabs along the top of the image/anim
make sure you click from the normal view to the optimised view

then make sure the optimise tools are showing, and you can turn on/off dithering, and set all teh palette options.. should sort you out as you see what will be saved before you save it
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:25, archived)
# Yeah
been doing that but can't get it to work.


Oooh!, Actually. Changing it from'custom' to 'perceptual' did the trick. I forgot to fiddle with that. Haven't played with those before.

Ta muchly.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:31, archived)
# I dunno what any of them do, and just click like mad :)
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:31, archived)
# The finished result.


Thanks.

My boss asked me to find something for her powerpoint presentation to illustrate the fact that the supply chain manager keeps chasing her to release batches for him to send out.

She was probably expecting a bit of clipart but she's getting this.

Now to start on the 'demand team scheduler always phoning her to see when batches will be ready to send' picture!
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:34, archived)
# Hahaha
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:35, archived)
# hahaha
brill
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:41, archived)
# excellent!
I like the way the lighting changes on
his arm.
(I helped save b3ta! Purple Onion, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:48, archived)
# I'd tell you where I got it from
but you'd only get the song stuck in your head and not thank me for it.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:49, archived)
# it was a good song before it was adopted by the chav masses
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:54, archived)
# ^this
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:55, archived)
# you oldie you
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:56, archived)
# Yes
:(
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:58, archived)
# great movement
what are you making it with?
(I helped save b3ta! mutated monty, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:23, archived)
# Photoshop/ImageReady
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:25, archived)
# try using no dither
and trying different colour palettes in the optimisation window, maybe
(I helped save b3ta! mutated monty, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:25, archived)
# yeah that "perceptual" palette seems to do the trick most of the time
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:25, archived)
# hehehe
did you leave dithering on?
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:24, archived)
# Yes
but turning it off seems to screw up the colours of the faces.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:24, archived)
# play a little with the different palettes
such as adaptive/exact/perceptual etc.

it that doens't help, add some more colours to the palette
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:26, archived)
# it may do as GIF only supports 256 colours, but as the background isn`t crazy with colours, it could be that the colours setting in the optimise doofer is set to 128 or 64
edit: isn`t crazy with colours - it`s flat colours

damn I need to read what I type
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:26, archived)
# ah
now I understand it too ;)
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:31, archived)
# Use diffusion dither.
It looks like you used "pattern".
Edit: actually, you just want flat colours, and it's dithering them? How odd.
If the background for some reason isn't flat colour to start with, sending the background through photoshop's posterise filter (on the "image" menu) should fix that. Or maybe you've got the web pallete on, and so it's turning flat colour into two different "web-safe" colours, dithered.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:27, archived)
# ^ nice use of filters
;)
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:28, archived)
# *starts shopping a rikmunk*
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:29, archived)
# Pfft!
*waits*
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:48, archived)
# Well the background was flat colours
and selected from the web colours palette.

meh. I need to make more use of my Photoshop for dummies book.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:35, archived)
# Oh, I see, you were stuck on "custom".
That's just a saved set of colours from the last image you opened, or the last image you saved, or something like that, I forget. Wouldn't have contained any of the exact colours used in the background of the new image, so that's why it ended up dithered.
By the way I recommend the built-in online help, it's very good.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:38, archived)
# Aaaah!
I'll remember that in future.


So what does 'perceptual' mean?
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:39, archived)
#
Perceptual

Creates a custom palette by giving priority to colors for which the human eye has greater sensitivity.

Selective

Creates a color table similar to the Perceptual color table, but favoring broad areas of color and the preservation of Web colors. This option usually produces images with the greatest color integrity.

Adaptive

Creates a palette by sampling the colors from the spectrum appearing most commonly in the image. For example, an RGB image with only the colors green and blue produces a palette made primarily of greens and blues. Most images concentrate colors in particular areas of the spectrum. To control a palette more precisely, first select a part of the image containing the colors you want to emphasize. Photoshop weights the conversion toward these colors.

/help menu

Hmm, I might have been completely wrong about custom, it says it's the same as adaptive. Meh. I always use perceptual. Unless I edit the colour table, which makes it into custom.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:41, archived)
# I'll probably just stick with perceptual
until the next time something goes wrong and I'm forced to try stuff out.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:47, archived)
# it means it`s all done with mirrors and elastic bands
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:42, archived)
# That explains
why the kittens keep attacking it then.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Tue 15 Nov 2005, 20:44, archived)