From: leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au (Leath Muller)
Message-Id: <199708290205.MAA18922@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
Subject: Re: Palette Conversion
To: massmedia AT mcn DOT net
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:05:38 +1000 (EST)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <34058700.7BFE@mcn.net> from "Chris Miller" at Aug 28, 97 04:11:12 am
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> I just dealt with the same problem...  I'm using Photoshop 4 and 768
> byte palette files. I figured out that photoshop uses 8 bit values for
> it's colors and the vga uses 5 bit values.  Just load the bytes,
> multiply them by 8 (or shift them by 3 bits... byte<<3) and then write
> them out with a photoshop palette extension.

Don't you mean divide the Photoshop colours by 8? (byte >> 3)

Leathal.