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Re: img2sticker: Convert images into .ldr stickers
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Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:02:38 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
   In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote:
   Here is where you can download/understand/etc. the software and after that you can look at the tutorial.

I have a comment on the tutorial. It’s probably easier to let your image editing program get rid of the antialiasing. If you’re using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, all you have to do is change the image mode to indexed color, then select a small number of colors (2 in your sample image), and most of the work will be done for you. There’s relatively little cleanup required after that. As long as you have a fairly high-contrast image, you can probably do the same thing with images with more colors.

I imagine other full-featured image editing programs have the same functionality. (You won’t find it in Paint, of course.)

Also, Bob Kojima’s Bricksaic provides a very easy way to convert images to the LDraw colour palette.

ROSCO



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(...) I suspect that using this would be risky. My program actually implements a find-nearest colours routine but when dealing with aliased images, often the aliasing will come out to be grey, dark grey or even weirder colours (I match in HSV space (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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  Re: img2sticker: Convert images into .ldr stickers
 
(...) I have a comment on the tutorial. It's probably easier to let your image editing program get rid of the antialiasing. If you're using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, all you have to do is change the image mode to indexed color, then select a (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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