Snoopeth, use a colour that isn't from the palette (or used anywhere else in the image) for the background colour - that makes it much easier to remove the background.
Some examples given above are about converting an image to use a predefined palette. You can also do this in Gimp. If you have an image which is in "Indexed" mode (meaning that it is palettised), and you paste another image into it as a new layer, all of the colours in the pasted image will be changed to the nearest colour from the palette. However, I don't know if you can change the algorithm which it uses to do this, whereas pngpal clearly gives you two options for which algorithm to use. In reality I would expect that the results are usually identical for both, except for certain combinations of source image and target palette.
I think Commander was just saying that there is a compatibility mode which you need to invoke in order to run quite old command line apps (ones that were made back when 32-bit Windows OSes were the main ones in use, so back in Win 8.1 era at least). I don't think you should need it for pngpal though, because bzt has obviously been developing this program very recently.
Oh, RetroEditor looks interesting!
BTW FiveBros, this may have been clear to you already - but just in case it isn't, I think that Commander is multi-lingual and English is not their first language (I will let Commander correct me if I am wrong about that).
What browser do you use, and do you have any anti-virus programs running with a "live protection" feature?
Some of them will probably block any executable which is not cryptographically signed and registered with some list of "trusted" programs, so if you try to download a program which someone has developed as a hobby - without doing all the registration stuff - it won't let you. You'll probably have to find and turn that feature off to download the program. It could also be a browser extension... possibly a browser extension that was installed without your knowledge, thanks to a "dark pattern" or "drive-by" installation.
To check that the program is really OK, once you have downloaded the executable file but before you run it, submit it to virustotal.com.
Quickly made this version at lower res with thicker lines in the hope that it might make a better preview. It's only good for a preview (if that), you can see that the detail on the torso is much too fine for lines this thick.
Oops, didn't notice that it was also scaled up 3x. Here it is at normal size.
Upscaling of pixel art is best done only in previews, with the actual asset submitted at the original size.
With transparency (left the frame alone).
Not that hard in this image to get around the background colour issue, but for something more complicated it could take a lot longer.
Snoopeth, use a colour that isn't from the palette (or used anywhere else in the image) for the background colour - that makes it much easier to remove the background.
Some examples given above are about converting an image to use a predefined palette. You can also do this in Gimp. If you have an image which is in "Indexed" mode (meaning that it is palettised), and you paste another image into it as a new layer, all of the colours in the pasted image will be changed to the nearest colour from the palette. However, I don't know if you can change the algorithm which it uses to do this, whereas pngpal clearly gives you two options for which algorithm to use. In reality I would expect that the results are usually identical for both, except for certain combinations of source image and target palette.
I think Commander was just saying that there is a compatibility mode which you need to invoke in order to run quite old command line apps (ones that were made back when 32-bit Windows OSes were the main ones in use, so back in Win 8.1 era at least). I don't think you should need it for pngpal though, because bzt has obviously been developing this program very recently.
Oh, RetroEditor looks interesting!
BTW FiveBros, this may have been clear to you already - but just in case it isn't, I think that Commander is multi-lingual and English is not their first language (I will let Commander correct me if I am wrong about that).
What browser do you use, and do you have any anti-virus programs running with a "live protection" feature?
Some of them will probably block any executable which is not cryptographically signed and registered with some list of "trusted" programs, so if you try to download a program which someone has developed as a hobby - without doing all the registration stuff - it won't let you. You'll probably have to find and turn that feature off to download the program. It could also be a browser extension... possibly a browser extension that was installed without your knowledge, thanks to a "dark pattern" or "drive-by" installation.
To check that the program is really OK, once you have downloaded the executable file but before you run it, submit it to virustotal.com.
Quickly made this version at lower res with thicker lines in the hope that it might make a better preview. It's only good for a preview (if that), you can see that the detail on the torso is much too fine for lines this thick.
Haha, me too. Wow, it is mangled. I looked at the actual asset now and it's much better.
It looks usable to me - maybe not raw, but as something to transform a bit to make it useful. I may have a go at that when I have some time.
Your art is lush, as in Wunderschön.
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