benpark Posted February 12, 2003 Share Posted February 12, 2003 Got pinkys. I am doing a corduroy road mod from the railroad, and I am stuck, any help appreciated. picture(can't figure out how to link...): http://benjamindonaldson.tripod.com/games/ [ February 12, 2003, 07:07 AM: Message edited by: benpark ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewTF Posted February 12, 2003 Share Posted February 12, 2003 Ah, the dreaded Pink Spots! Not much else to do but go in and eradicate the little suckers. This often--well, always, actually--seems to happen when editing a BMP with a pink transparency knockout. The pixels on the edge of the pink area get discolored and then you get this. I'm not sure what application you're using to MOD, but you just need to zoom in and recolor the suspect pixels. Selection tools like Photoshop's magic wand and "select color" command can help, but they're far from ideal in this situation. It's a tedious task, but not as bad as it seems. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted February 12, 2003 Share Posted February 12, 2003 Indeed, a boring and tedious task. But A great idea you have there, Benpark. Perfect! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNoobie Posted February 12, 2003 Share Posted February 12, 2003 ok use the magic wand tool and select the pink areas then press CTRL-C (copy) then press CTRL-V (paste) this will create a new layer for the pink areas, from there you can do what ever you want to the BMP just as long the pink areas located on another layer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpark Posted February 12, 2003 Author Share Posted February 12, 2003 Thanks, everybody- I had dug up an old topic where I used your trick, Mr. Noobie-it helped quite a bit (I am using Photoshop as well). Is it the slightly darker pink pixels that are the offenders? I seem to get them every time, in varying amounts. Nasty lil buggers... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aka_tom_w Posted February 12, 2003 Share Posted February 12, 2003 Originally posted by benpark: Thanks, everybody- I had dug up an old topic where I used your trick, Mr. Noobie-it helped quite a bit (I am using Photoshop as well). Is it the slightly darker pink pixels that are the offenders? I seem to get them every time, in varying amounts. Nasty lil buggers... I think the "feather" feature in Photoshop creates them when you are not careful it edits the numeric value of the pink to a different (but similiar) value that then is NOT transparent. So you see it as pink near the edges. There is only one value of pink that is transparent. I don't know its RGB value but I am sure someone here can post it. any pink pixels in a mod that are NOT the exact numeric value of the "transparent pink" value are then visible and give you the ugly pink fringe. What are the RGB values of transparent pink in CMBB? anybody? -tom w 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike8g Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 R/G/B: 255/0/255 Marcus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNoobie Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 if your coloring em in manually use the pencil tool. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 One way to avoid pinkies (if you're modifying an existing mod) is to copy all the magenta area before you do anything else and paste it onto a new layer. Now no matter how much you do to the bottom layerthe knockout color will still knock out. Of couse you have to flatten the image again before resaving as a bmp. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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