paint question

Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:47 am

sup everyone

how ya all doing

umm anyways im trying to paint a winamp skin (2nd one) and i need to shrink an 800x600 screen shot to about 350 mabey 360xwhatever but when i shrink it to about that size it kinda gets blocky like ...its not that bad but still

is there anyway to stop if from looking like was made with lego? lol

any help with this would be great

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:28 pm

You should use photoshop and not paint, paint is not that good when it comes to resizing, paint is basically a straight and simple pixel oriented type program so it does not smooth things like photoshop does.

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brandon · Post by **brandon** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:57 pm

Paint rulz!!!!!!!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:58 pm

Actually, you can do very cool things in paint.

It's just that it takes seconds to get the same result in photoshop. But paint is better when it comes to strait sharp lines and such.

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brandon · Post by **brandon** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:59 pm

I still think GIMP is better!!!!

Paint RULZ too!!!!!!!!

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:04 pm

well when i said paint i just ment like a basic painting question lol i use paintshop pro 7 but i still donno how to smooth it out a lil

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:41 am

I haven't really looked at psp7, but somewhere in the image resize dialog or somethign there should be an option for resampling, something like bicubic, or bilinear resampling... look for stuff like that.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:15 am

yeah i found it but does not help much lol

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:16 pm

what size is the pixel count in the image its self.

is it over 600 pixels

or is it less then 100 pixels?

dont know what version of winamp your making the skin for i made winamp 2 skins.

but the pixelation is caused by enlargeing a image that has too little amount of pixels to start with.

if your making an image to inlarge it is always best to save it with at least 600 pixels as a tiff image since tiff is uncompressed. you can use bmp but that is only depenet on the type that the program requires.

i think winamp wants bmp or gif.

the same is also true when shrinking the image the more pixels and colors to chose from the better.

you might want to try using ms picture it.

last i heard about 3 years ago they did some trickery with the software that makes the image lose that pixel look when resized that the other programs did not use.

i had thought it was long enoungh now that the other programs caught up but maybe not?

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:41 am

sup e1 ... how ya all doing?

ok lol more paint questions ... now remember im using psp7

#1) i have 2 types of blue ....one is R:77 G:76 B:129 and color two is R:20 G:27 B:37
now i need to like merge the 2 blues together

hard to explane so here on the right is what i wanna do with the 2 colors on the left

is there anyway to do this easly without going through the color chart and typing in the colors i want? lol a lil quick lesson on how to do this would be great oh and umm i found the purple thing on the net so lol

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 2:57 am

#2) lol top is what i get after resizing it .... theres gotta be away to clear it up a lil right? cant even read mitsubishi moters in top one but thats about the size i need and with winamp doubling the size of the pixels it looks even werse

any help with these 2 problems would be great .... oh and when problems are solved i will edit out the pix to save ya some space and bandwith red

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:09 am

aww i never seen the movie yet lol well then kazaa is going to be used in soon

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