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Blogs > rm_lipsuccour4u > Pickled Tink

How I Make Photo Bling - Method One  

rm_lipsuccour4u 64M
20 posts
2/12/2009 8:42 am
How I Make Photo Bling - Method One
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sparrow612 56M/50F
Ask me for a photo

3/14/2009 7:39 pm

 i got photos of nature in my blog if you care to make a bling otta them i read this post lost more now then i was but you know what your taking about so gett'er done


ivoryfrogg 77M
262 posts
10/20/2009 5:30 pm

 You can also set up an open office spreadsheet template. Open office has a convert feature that automatically converts your hex to dec as soon as you paste it in the cell. use the gimp html feature and paste the hex # from the text to the appropriate spreadsheet cell and you have the three dec #s to enter in the bling manager. It is also very easy just to have two windows open, you bling 40x40 and the bling editor. Use the colorpicker tool and point at the cell you want. Gimp opens a window with the dec numbers. type them into the bling editor. Thatway there is no conversions, spreadsheets, etc. Can all be done from Gimp.

Good suggestion about brightness and contrast - makes the small icons easier to see.
Get a Grip... because if you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much room....

Even the week knows that after Monday and Tuesday it is W T F !
Ivory Frogg


rm_lipsuccour4u 64M
21 posts
10/28/2009 4:40 pm

Thanks for the info ivoryfrogg. I had read somewhere that it can be done using a Excel spreadsheet, but I've not used any type of spreadsheet since about 1998. I wouldn't know where to start. I thought that would be the case with most people so decided to write it in a script that would do all the calculations for everything.

The concensus of opinion is that when an image is reduced to 256 colors, the image is slightly darker than before. Similar colors are averaged out and so there is a good chance you may lose the highlight colors in the image. Adjusting brightness and contrast in all or particular small areas of the bling is often necessary to make the contents more recognisable in such a small size.

Tony.


roydoggstrapon 47M
1 post
12/16/2010 11:24 pm

 image


UZIoSUICIDE 56M
16 posts
3/16/2016 6:28 am

 I think i better leave all the bling making to the smart people...


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