I did these with GIMP, which is free and open source. It did not find an option to export IMG files, I did one in PNG and the other in SUN Raster Image, don't know if this works.
But at least reducing to 1 bit and dithering is doable with GIMP quite easily.
Convert jpeg images for viewing in high res monochrome mode.
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Thanks. Thing seems to only use IMG format.
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Re: Convert jpeg images for viewing in high res monochrome mode.
nice.
what about floyd steinberg dithering?
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Wow! Will give that a bash later, thanks.
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Last week there was a Humble Bundle of art programs and Paint Shop Pro was one of them, now owned by Corel. I was shocked it's still about I remember using it on a 486 SX25 because the viewer was awesome
There's a sort of free version of Adobe Photoshop that Adobe abandoned because the online servers that they used to verify your serial were shut down, they released a official free key I presume for people who actually had it and were using it, in case it needed reverifying I guess.
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https://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-release ... -for-free/
There's a sort of free version of Adobe Photoshop that Adobe abandoned because the online servers that they used to verify your serial were shut down, they released a official free key I presume for people who actually had it and were using it, in case it needed reverifying I guess.
Some info here :
https://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-release ... -for-free/
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Annoyingly I have all the keys for that stuff but lost Audition 3 when I wiped my PC to do a fresh offline windows 10 install on a new hard disk (online accounts list every program on you pc. My account finally deleted today) So now I have the key for Audition 3 and no Audition 3 Photoshop doesn't have the format I need. Paint Shop Pro is going for £8 on ebay, so I might get it.DrF wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 12:37 pm Last week there was a Humble Bundle of art programs and Paint Shop Pro was one of them, now owned by Corel. I was shocked it's still about I remember using it on a 486 SX25 because the viewer was awesome
There's a sort of free version of Adobe Photoshop that Adobe abandoned because the online servers that they used to verify your serial were shut down, they released a official free key I presume for people who actually had it and were using it, in case it needed reverifying I guess.
Some info here :
https://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-release ... -for-free/
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Does gif format work on Thing then? IMG doesn't using floyd steinberg dithering. No, just tried it. Just bought Paint Shop Pro 9 for £7.99.
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This should be all you need for any image to Atari conversion: http://atari.anides.de
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PI3 is the format which Snapit saves as, and I can view these in XnView. Tried this format on Thing and after much back and forthing I believe Thing uses only IMG format for it's desktop pic. I have bought a download copy of Paint Shop Pro 9, which allows me to save as GemPaint which is IMG and I have just managed to use with Thing (Hooray!) Annoyingly XnView will view IMG and PI3 files, while Paint Shop Pro 9 will open IMG files but not PI3 files from Snapit, so I need to use both of these programs. Another odd thing is that you can't double click an IMG file to open with Paint Shop Pro 9 even if it's been assigned to always open with the application. The application has to be started first. (Just realised that I can drag and drop files into it's workspace though ) Still...this is all running on Windows 10. I think being able to get screenshots from the Atari and have Atari desktop pics has been worth itAtarian Computing wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:52 pm This should be all you need for any image to Atari conversion: http://atari.anides.de
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Here's how to make desktop images for Thing on your PC using Paint Shop Pro 9
Drop and drag your image:
Resize for the Atari (640x400):
Decrease colour depth to 2 colours (1 bit):
Choose reduction method:
Ready for saving:
Save as GEM Paint:
Saved image in XnView:
Now an Atari desktop image!:
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