For every color ramp you define your source data is 8bit allowing for a possible 256 colors, with no limit on the number of ramps you define. Instead of painting directly with an indexed color palette, you’re always painting in HD which then procedurally gets mapped to the indexed palette. Why “HD?” The backbone of this method that makes all the magic happens is the concept of manipulating higher resolution data than the end result. If you’re unsure what index painting is, then I recommend you read the previous blog post as it defines it as well as several other terms that we will be expanding upon here.
I’ve shown it to a number of people and each time the reception has been through the roof. I wanted to share with you a method I’ve been developing with my environment work on Chasm for turning Photoshop into the most powerful pixel art tool using what I’m calling “HD index painting”. It's a bit lengthy but I figured you guys would find it useful. Hey GameDev! I posted a blog covering a new method I've been developing allowing you to 'index paint' in Photoshop - but with a fundamentally more powerful process which retains HD data to manipulate the pixels. And they make the complicated task much easier and help users in creating amazing effects, designing faster & better.Archived How to turn Photoshop into the most powerful pixel art program with HD Index Painting Photoshop Plugins are actually add-ons to the main program which helps to attain additional image effects or performing tasks that are impossible or hard to fulfill using Adobe Photoshop alone. 24 Free Photoshop Plug-ins By Richard Rosenman.20 free photoshop plugins from Flaming Pear.Photo Freebies – 10 best photoshop plugins.Eraser Genuine – erase certain parts of images.Mosaic Toolkit & Illumination Fix Toolkit.Stereogram Lab Filter photoshop plug-in.Turn your images into Mosaic photoshop plug-in.Auto FX – Dreamy Photo Photoshop Plug-in.UnPlugged-X – Over 100 effects in one plug-in.Snowscape – cover any landscape with snow.Virtual Photographer – Photoshop Plugin.Lens Correction – Free Photoshop Plug-in.DepthDither provides color dither for Photoshop.Xpose – Photoshop plugin to adjust exposure.Selective Saturation – Photoshop Plug-in.Artistic Grain and mezzo style generator.Photoshop black-white conversion plugin.Smart Refinment Filter plug-in for Adobe Photoshop.Local Contrast Enhancement – Photoshop Plugin.ScreenWorks – Simple Pattern Generation.
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