[CODEDOG ND]

Ok, when i make my planet and place it into FreeSpace 2, it has a green ring around it.  How can I correct this without having to slowing cut it off pixel by pixel.

[Fineus]

Got photoshop? anti-aliased flood filling is the order of the day (make sure tolerance is low). Then turn AA off and flood fill again (again - low tolerance) and you should have no green ring.

[CODEDOG ND]

only photoshop I have is 1.0.    Does anybody know how in PSP7?

[deep_eyes]

 

Originally posted by CODEDOG ND:
only photoshop I have is 1.0.      Does anybody know how in PSP7?

I have 6.0, its only a couple megs big. but i dont got highspeed bandwith to transer to you. i can find it only though and get u the link to get it for FREE. being that the demo is the full version, i get u the patch, and u automatically got a full version. i will see what i can do.

Warez Bad!! Legal Alternative Good!!

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[CP5670]

Couple megs? I thought it was over 100mb...

I personally like PSP7 a lot better than Photoshop 6 even if the price is not taken into consideration; the programs are roughly equivalent in terms of functionality but I think PSP's interface is much cleaner, You can do the same thing that Thunder suggested by trying a different flood fill option (aside from the default "RGB Value" mode); some of those have antialiasing. The only thing better about Photoshop is that it has more image filtering effects AFAIK.

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[Zeronet]

PSP7 is all right for the price.

[Fineus]

As I said - Warez is not good. Please don't talk about it.

You should be able to do (more or less) the same thing in PSP7, by flood filling in slightly increasing tolerance values you can just get rid of the outside of the planet slightly (and also the green bit), since it's on a black backgound if you do it rigbht nobody will know. Your alternative is to do it by hand...

[IceFire]

Its just as easy to do in PSP7 as it is in Photoshop and using virutally the same tools.

Pick your magic wand tool.  Now, set the tolerance to about 32.  It might be too much so you may have to play with the settings but you'll want to select the green transparancy around the planet.  Now, cut the non planet section away and voila.  It'll be a bit jaggie but it'll work nicely in FS2.

[Vertigo1]

If memory serves, Maxtor gave away Photoshop LE (which is basically Photoshop 5.5 with a few things missing) with their hard drives like a year ago.  I dunno if they still do it though.

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[ZylonBane]

For future reference-- DON'T render your planets onto a green background. Render them onto black, do your clipping and resizing, then as the last step before palette-reducing, do a flat green flood fill.

I used to run into this problem a lot with "graphic artists" (aka liberal arts Photoshop monkeys) that didn't understand that key colors had to be precise. I'd constantly get graphics with purple or green thoroughly mixed into the edges. Ugh. These were usually the same people who couldn't grasp why it didn't matter what DPI a screen graphic was.

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