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From: dth@shark.cis.ufl.edu (David Hightower)
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Subject: Re: Giffer 1.08 question
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Date: 3 Mar 91 02:11:11 GMT
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In article <1991Mar1.233258.4641@agate.berkeley.edu> bclee@.berkeley.edu (Bob C. Lee) writes:
>
>	Hi, I just got a copy of the new Giffer 1.08.  I like the new
>	feature that let you create a startup screen.  One problem,
>	though.  When I restarted my Mac with the newly created startup
>	screen, the picture it showed was missing some colors.  It's
>	like a 256-color picture being converted to a 16-color one.

The problem is not with your machine; the problem is the palette that
the Macintosh defaults to.  Apparently the CLUT (color look-up table)
has a standard palette that is used unless some application defines a
new palette (such as what happens when you open a GIF file).  I have not
been able to figure out how to change the default palette, and I'm not
sure that I would want to; that might do more harm than good.

To determine (in giffer) what a picture would look like using the Mac
standard palette, use the command "USE DEFAULT PALETTE (Command ])"
under the touchup menu when you have the picture on the screen.  This will 
change the palette from the one currently being used to the system
standard.

As a side note, I have some spectacular images that I would *love* to
use as a startup screen, but they look terrible under the default
palette.  The one I'm using now is the "don't Panic" planet from Douglas
Adams; it fits my state of mind in most cases.

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