From: davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery)
Subject: Re: How to change WB 2.0 border color seperatly?
Keywords: wb 2.0 border
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:07:45 GMT

   I can help you bit there on your border problem, but I'm pretty sure you
   will either need Deluxe Paint IV or some other paint program with a
    pallette changer as good as DPaintIVs. With Deluxe paint IV, you can take
    you background usuable picture in. Then you go to your pallette mixer.
    When it comes to your workbench, you are in great luck. Practically 
      every digitized picture that I've ever encontered(ones that looked 
     impressive at least) had at least 4 colors that were exactly the same
      or VERY near the first four(and very important) colors of your
      workbench screen. And alot of them are able to match the first
      typical eight colors of your workbench. Either exact or just a bit
    off. 
   ---------- Anyways, I would use the pallette mixer to first, 
     switch the colors in the first four registers with some colors in
    any of the other registers that would match the color of your workbench.
    When you look through your pallette, you would typically(on Workbench
     2.0+) want to make it so that 
   ythe  first four registers make up  
     number(color register)   Red   Green Blue
               1.              6     8      8
               2.              0     0      0
               3.              F     F      F   < May want to make it E  E E
               4.              C     9      6  < or some other orange or
                                                    yellow   color.

     Ok, afterwards, your picture looks muffed up. But don't PANIC!!!!!



------- Whew!!  when it's over, you have to take each pari of colors you
      switched. I mean each pair of colors, making the first your foreground
       color and the other your background color. The, from the menu, you
       would choose  FG<==>BG  which will switch your foreground color and
       your background color(in the picture only). When you have finished al
       pairs, you should have the exact picture you had before, except WOW!
       The first four<at least)  Are the exact same ones as my workbench!!!
      So it appears that you have a perfectly untouched workbench floating
      over a cool looking picture. I've already done this with quite a few pics
      and the more you do, the faster you can switch the colors around.
      I have anime pictures and neat VGA-scanned looking wildlife pictures
     I put as the background and my workbench looks exatcly the same, even
     with those 16 color limitations. Personally, I wish they had a utility 
     that would just do the switching in public domain, but other than that
     , the Commercial paint utilities are the only things I know that can do it.
      I'm not sure about all of them, but DPaint IV works.
 
   ----- Hope this sheds the colors of the pallette in places those colors
          are needed.

     --- Mike Bromery.
     Email: davereed@wam.umd.edu
   
    P.S. --- To mark Thompson. Got any more raytraced pics you would like to
    jpeg and upload?????
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