In copying a screen capture embedded in a Word document and pasting to
PSP 8.00, the title bar that is a color gradient in Word pastes to a
set of distinct color bars each presumably representing the average
color for that section of the full title bar. How can I maintain the
continuous color gradient in PSP?

Yo

On 1 Jan 2006, Yo wrote:

Possibly a silly question (from someone who doesn't use PSP) but what
happens if you paste the same screen capture into MS Paint? That
*might* allow you to save the screenshot as a BMP file with 24-bit
colour and then import it into PSP with no loss of colour information.

To avoid colour changes, a lot of my screen captures end up passing
through three conversion stages to get them as GIF images without
drastic colour changes:

1. Screen-capture
--> MS Paint
--> 24-bit-colour BMP file

2. 24-bit-colour BMP file
--> another program for colour-reduction
(doesn't use a default palette and change pixels to
match the palette the way MS Paint does, often with
major colour-changes[1])
--> 256-colour BMP file

3. 256-colour BMP file
--> MS Paint
--> 256-colour GIF

[1] Such as changing light tan to blue in these screen-shots:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/unhide.zip (large, 570KB)
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Yo wrote:

I don't have PSP, but I'm guessing it happens because of the modus the
new file is in, before you past your screencap. Make sure the modus
has more than 256 colours.

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On 02 Jan 2006 Els wrote in alt.www.webmaster

what's a modus?

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Duende wrote:

Not sure. But my PhotoShop version has the following moduses for image
files (my own translation from Dutch, might be different in English):
bitmap
grey values
duo tone
indexed colour
RGB-colour
CMYK-colours
lab-colour
multi-channel

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On 02 Jan 2006 Els wrote in alt.www.webmaster

Ok, my photoshop only has mode.

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Duende wrote:

Hmm.. are RGB, CMYK and grey scale modes in your Photoshop?

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Duende wrote:
Hey, old man
I thought we were both permanently AWOL.
Hugs to you!
Judy

Duende wrote:
I been sucked into the vortex ...
I could be coaxed to settle in for the winter
Where the hell did you disappear to for so long?

On 02 Jan 2006 Els wrote in alt.www.webmaster

Yup.

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