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Well, it was kinda easy/hard, depending on how much you want to work on it. :) I had no life, so I took it almost all the way. :) First of all, dump all the sprites onto a sprite sheet, and then double the size of the sheet. Then I used Paint Shop Pro 4's mask thingy, and put it on the light blue bg (transpanency). After getting all the blue selected and making the mask, you fill in the masked part with witchever color best fits the edge of the sprites (I used black for the Baron. :^). This also helps point out areas that you missed with the mask. The easiest way to add parts to the mask wihout making on from scratch is to select the parts you missed, switch to mask edit mode, and fill in the selested parts with the oppsite color they currently are (if the selected part is black, make it white, or visa versa.). Anyways, after you've fillen in all the mask with black, invert the mask, increase the color ammount to the highest (16/32 bit) and apply a meridian filter to smooth the edges. The next part is tricky, as it takes more of an eye to do then just doing it. You apply a soften/blur to the image, and then sharpen the edges, and blur/soften again. Hopefully it looks more detailed, as this part is more doing and looking then just doing. :)
*takes a breath and continues* Anywho, next you invert the mask, reload the doom pallet, and fix any bad colors by modifying the colors in the pallet, and then reloading the origional pallet again. Now you fill in the bg with the transparent color (light blue). Now for the edges. Currently the sprite looks nice, but has black around the edges, and the edges are still big blocks, so go into mask edit mode, and apply a meridian filter to it, then go back into the image and refill the bg with the light blue. Do this a few times untill it looks good, or it just stops working. :) Hopefully by now, you either have a nice looking sprite, or a steaming cup of mac's coffee. =)
So, like I said, easy. :)
[edit] Oh, this is what I did, but I also did other things which I can't remember, but most of the middle things should be easy to figure out. :) [/edit]
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12-06-01 03:30 
