Photo editing
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Do you have a creative streak? Post your OFFIMG photos here.
Images MUST be in Windows-NT .bmp format at a resolution of 400x240 pixels and 1-bit colour depth or they will not be displayed by the DM42. Images that do not meet this requirement will be removed from the forum
Do you have a creative streak? Post your OFFIMG photos here.
Images MUST be in Windows-NT .bmp format at a resolution of 400x240 pixels and 1-bit colour depth or they will not be displayed by the DM42. Images that do not meet this requirement will be removed from the forum
Photo editing
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
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
Personally, I use the GIMP.
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who do not.
Re: Photo editing
FYI - Although fairly limited, Paint comes with all versions of Windows and works just fine.
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Re: Photo editing
How do you get paint to do 1-bit and dithering?
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Re: Photo editing
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.
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