Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Beginner question

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Beginner question - batch color change?

sttp

2006-05-20, 6:17 pm

Hi. Excuse the newbie question, please. ;-) I don't do much work with
computer images. Everything I've wanted to do with bitmaps up until now I
could do with old versions of Paint Shop Pro or whatever. I now have access
to my brother's copy of Photoshop. I've looked for the answer to this in the
help sections, have tinkered with the batch options, etc, and I'm usually
pretty computer savvy, but I cannot figure out how do do something that
SEEMS like it should be pretty simple.

My question: is there a way to tell the program to open every .bmp file in a
specified location, and then convert every pixel of HTML color A to a pixel
of HTML color B? (And save all images, obviously.) These are big bitmaps I
have, but not at all complicated - 2 colors only, actually. But I need
several versions of them, where the only difference is one of the colors. If
I have to do this color replacing manullay it will take a good bit of time,
obviously. This seems like something that Photoshop version 1 would've been
able to do, but for the life of me I cannot get it to do what I want....

Thanks. Any help is appreciated!

sttp

2006-05-20, 6:17 pm

Oops... that would be "manually." ;-)

Thanks again.

"sttp" <scottp1182002REMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. Excuse the newbie question, please. ;-) I don't do much work with
> computer images. Everything I've wanted to do with bitmaps up until now I
> could do with old versions of Paint Shop Pro or whatever. I now have
> access to my brother's copy of Photoshop. I've looked for the answer to
> this in the help sections, have tinkered with the batch options, etc, and
> I'm usually pretty computer savvy, but I cannot figure out how do do
> something that SEEMS like it should be pretty simple.
>
> My question: is there a way to tell the program to open every .bmp file in
> a specified location, and then convert every pixel of HTML color A to a
> pixel of HTML color B? (And save all images, obviously.) These are big
> bitmaps I have, but not at all complicated - 2 colors only, actually. But
> I need several versions of them, where the only difference is one of the
> colors. If I have to do this color replacing manullay it will take a good
> bit of time, obviously. This seems like something that Photoshop version 1
> would've been able to do, but for the life of me I cannot get it to do
> what I want....
>
> Thanks. Any help is appreciated!
>
>

sttp

2006-05-21, 3:16 am

Got it. Decided to just record a macro. Good enough!

"sttp" <scottp1182002REMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e4nvs6$l62$1@emma.aioe.org...
> Hi. Excuse the newbie question, please. ;-) I don't do much work with
> computer images. Everything I've wanted to do with bitmaps up until now I
> could do with old versions of Paint Shop Pro or whatever. I now have
> access to my brother's copy of Photoshop. I've looked for the answer to
> this in the help sections, have tinkered with the batch options, etc, and
> I'm usually pretty computer savvy, but I cannot figure out how do do
> something that SEEMS like it should be pretty simple.
>
> My question: is there a way to tell the program to open every .bmp file in
> a specified location, and then convert every pixel of HTML color A to a
> pixel of HTML color B? (And save all images, obviously.) These are big
> bitmaps I have, but not at all complicated - 2 colors only, actually. But
> I need several versions of them, where the only difference is one of the
> colors. If I have to do this color replacing manullay it will take a good
> bit of time, obviously. This seems like something that Photoshop version 1
> would've been able to do, but for the life of me I cannot get it to do
> what I want....
>
> Thanks. Any help is appreciated!
>
>