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MMS
on 2017-03-28
16:10:50
 Re: Venice Carneval!

Yeah George, this one is really challenging due to the very fine details on the blue patterns, while the mask with become very much dithered when you try to play with the blue areas. Your one still looks nice here.
The buildings on the backgound with "out of focus" sometimes caused "ditheringus maximus" grin, but in your case they are fully recognizable too.

BTW I tried out the dithering free mode too, if you check the Clown with the Golden mask, it was made with that setting. Maybe I was a little too optimistic on the end result, or was too late or drunken to notice the defectst happy

It is interesting, how hard to get proper greens and blues, while golden color looks fantastic. While generally speaking the 9 shades of gray of Plus/4 sounds great on paper, all pictures with bigger white/middle grey areas really sucked. I had two or three pictures, all were cancelled, despite major efforts in the editor. I think we really miss the 16 greys (and a REAL white) potentially was in the TED hardware design.

Still, I do not own and do not apply +4 palette on the pictures before conversion, but typically reduce the color depth to 32, 48 or 64 independent colors, then apply a median filter with the lowest setting to reduce level of dithering in the final result.
I try to select and recolor to a more proper color at the areas still looks too dithered on the Gfx converter, then I switch back from the gfx editor, reload and check it on the go, if I could improve it.
It is fun, though I still need to learn a lot of efficient picture editing techniques, I spent ~4 or 5 hours with that girl on the title screen, while some other guys do a fantastic picture from zero in that time, eg. Genzoman on Deviantart typically finishes his fantastic arts in 6-7 hours )



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