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Photo editing

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:57 am
by MikeOR
I'd like to compose a few OFFIMGs Can anyone recommend a cheap/free editing program for Windows which can produce images in the correct format?

Re: Photo editing

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:41 pm
by FireBird
IrfanView is free and allows to resize images and reduce them to 2 color bitmaps. A quick check worked on my DM42.

Re: Photo editing

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:42 pm
by grsbanks
Personally, I use the GIMP.

Re: Photo editing

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:53 pm
by rprosperi
FYI - Although fairly limited, Paint comes with all versions of Windows and works just fine.

Re: Photo editing

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:14 pm
by toml_12953
rprosperi wrote:
Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:53 pm
FYI - Although fairly limited, Paint comes with all versions of Windows and works just fine.
How do you get paint to do 1-bit and dithering?

Re: Photo editing

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 2:04 am
by rprosperi
toml_12953 wrote:
Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:14 pm
rprosperi wrote:
Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:53 pm
FYI - Although fairly limited, Paint comes with all versions of Windows and works just fine.
How do you get paint to do 1-bit and dithering?
Paint does not support dithering (at least not with any control; when you paste something with higher res than the current settings, it sorta does some dithering on its own, but you can't control it).

Set the properties to B&W (= 1-bit) before you paste in your image. If you paste it in first, you can no longer set it to B&W.