Colors

[mindseye]

quote: You can create something in photoshop and then copy/paste it into Graphic Converter

You don't need Graphic Converter! Photoshop is perfectly capable of handling Civ2's color palettes on its own!

First, open one of Civ2's original graphics files and save the color palette:
Image > Mode > Color Table > Save

Use a name like "units.pal" because some of the gifs use different palettes.

Next go ahead and create your graphics as 24-bit RGB files. When you are ready to convert to .gif, do the following:

Image > Mode > Indexed Color > Palette > Custom > Load > (select palette file) > OK
In the Indexed Color dialog box make sure Dither is set to "None" and Color Matching is set to "Best".

Now save your file in .gif format and have fun!

- mindseye

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[Henrik]

Ah, but then he is on a mac where things work a little differently (although you still could use photoshop I find graphic convertor easier). The Mac version of Civ 2 use the .pict instead of the .gif extension. And unless you do it as I described the pallete will be garbled (actually there is another way but it's much harder to do it that way).
[This message has been edited by Henrik (edited January 27, 2001).]