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First tests using the ConvImgCPC + minor adjustments graphics ... :)

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Devilmarkus

#25
15:08, 21 August 13 Last Edit: 15:11, 21 August 13 by Devilmarkus
Sad, that ConvImgCPC doesn't provide real ordered dithering...

I am trying to implement that into JavaCPC Paint but is not easy to solve...

Also the CPC+ palette is not very simple to calculate "on the fly" but I added a few good effects to define it easier.

2 screens:

Ordered Dithering:

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CPC Plus palette: (Some colours I defined manually)
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Dithering is not always the best choice but can be useful sometimes.


Original picture:
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#26
15:23, 21 August 13
Quote from: Devilmarkus on 15:08, 21 August 13
Sad, that ConvImgCPC doesn't provide real ordered dithering...


I'm glad about that. Looks better IMHO.
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Devilmarkus

#27
15:24, 21 August 13
Quote from: TFM on 15:23, 21 August 13

I'm glad about that. Looks better IMHO.

Depends on the picture.
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#28
15:30, 21 August 13
Yes, I agree, some images are better suited to conversion! It is still a very good result.

HAL6128

#29
21:08, 21 August 13
Quote from: TFM on 17:06, 20 August 13
The artwork disc is really nice. However it uses very few colors only (IMHO), so maybe MODE 1 would be an interesting alternative?  :)
Yeah. A mode 1 picture would be a good alternative... . But it really depends on the original image. (...made with CPCPaint and full dithering.)
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#30
00:53, 22 August 13
That's great!
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#31
07:38, 22 August 13
When I was playing around with CONVIMGCPC, by taking some photos & some computer art of mine and converting to CPC, I noticed there was an intensity slider which determine the Pixilation generated in the picture, which I thought was nifty for if you had surfaces to which you didn't want Dots appearing through it, though by the looks of your Pictures it looks like you've been playing around with that yourself.  :)
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#32
15:33, 22 August 13
Other screen (by Amiga Games)...  :)

Mr. DVG

#33
17:11, 22 August 13
Other screen ... again (by Amiga Games 2)...  :)

TFM

#34
17:48, 22 August 13
Ok guys, time to patch some CPC games with additional loading screens  :)
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#35
17:55, 22 August 13
Maybe ... If I were able I would gladly ... :laugh:

Mr. DVG

#36
16:29, 25 August 13
Other screenshots from amiga games... :)

Mr. DVG

#37
04:44, 31 August 13
New screenshots from Amiga games...  ;)

SyX

#38
12:14, 31 August 13
You should take more care with things like the aspect ratio ;)

Mr. DVG

#39
12:09, 01 September 13
You're absolutely right Syx, but honestly I do not know how to do, I'm not a graph and give an regular aspect to the image correspond to a drastic decline in the quality of the image (use only the ConvImgCPC as a program) ...  ::)

SyX

#40
13:38, 01 September 13
Don't worry Mr. DVG, nobody borns knowing about everything :)

The basic idea is to prepare the pictures before in your favourite paint program (setting CPC aspect ratio, palette -sometimes a simple posterize fx is enough-, size, ... and pixelize of course :) ), because everything you work there, it will help to get a better result with the ConvImgCPC or other tool that convert your picture to CPC format.

There is a few threads, for example this or every post of MacDeath with likes (he knows well his graphics-fu), where the best graphicians in the forum explain their tricks. And in the cpcwiki itself, there is a few nice pages as this or that. And if you can read french (or use google translator), i recommend you the page of Supersly.

You can take inspiration too, of every thread with mockups as the Cananbalt thread (We need this game people!!!) or galleries as TotO's gallery.

This forum and the wiki is a real CPC treasure, search and you will find everything you want, i promise. And maybe we should have a post with links to every interesting thread, but there is a LOT, jejeje.

Mr. DVG

#41
15:21, 01 September 13
Perfect, do not ask for anything better ... unfortunately in Italy the scene Amstrad is very poor, and of course the doubts and perplexities techniques are continuing at a rapid pace ... here I found a lot already and the people are very helpful, thanks for the link reporting ... I will try to translate everything and trying to learn as much as possible ... thank you very much to all! :)

Gryzor

#42
17:48, 01 September 13
Hey, some lovely screens in here; you did a good job choosing the pics, the conversion seems to work very well!

Mr. DVG

#43
01:16, 03 September 13
Thanks Gryz ...  :)

The choice of images obviously involves a bit of study so that the conversion is as painless as possible (black background, large images so they do not lose a lot of resolution etc, etc ...)!

I'm glad you like them, if you want to keep open this topic to publish any other work on the conversion!  :D

Mr. DVG

#44
05:45, 06 September 13
Trials and study the zoom + diethering ... :D

16 colors - Mode 0 - Dith

TFM

#45
16:33, 06 September 13
Nice pictures, but you could keep the aspect ratio better  :)
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Gryzor

#46
16:42, 07 September 13
Georgia Salpa!

Bryce

#47
22:11, 07 September 13
Georgias curves need more than 64K :)

Bryce.

Devilmarkus

#49
11:22, 08 September 13 Last Edit: 11:23, 08 September 13 by Devilmarkus
Sorry, couldn't resist:

Attached georgia.zip:

Put onto a DSK, and load like other overscan screens.
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