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From: halam@umnd-cpe-cola.d.umn.edu (haseen alam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Making color backdrop from pictures?
Summary: Making color backrop.
Keywords: Color backdrop, Giffer, VisionLab, DeskPict....
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Date: 8 Apr 90 02:09:54 GMT
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Reply-To: halam@umnd-cpe-cola.d.umn.edu (Haseen Alam)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth Computer Science
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Hi there,

I am trying to make backdrop pictures from color gif pictures, but they
loose a lot of the color in the process.  I can view all the pictures
with stunning color on my screen with Giffer 1.06 and VisionLab.  I used
both of these separately to save the pictures as pict id =0 files.  Then
I named them DeskPicture and put them in the system folder.  I am using
version 1.0 of DeskPict, this puts the picture on the desktop but only
with part of the color.  I tried viewing these files again in Giffer,
and they apper the same way with less color.  Apparantly neither Giffer
nor visionLab can save files as PictID=0 files without loosing color
information.  Previously I tried the same process with 16 colored
pictures and they worked fine.

Now here are ny questions:

1) Am I doing something wrong?
2) Is there any other PD/SW utility that I can use to do the job?
3) I was informed that there are later versions of DeskPict available,
   if so, where can I get it from?
4) what other PD/SW/Commertial program do the same job as DeskPict?

Any helpful gesture will be highly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Haseen.
email: halam@umnd-cpe-cola.d.umn.edu