Per-pixel stuff with photoshop

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loquak
Apr 12, 2004
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I’m doing some per-pixel stuff (working with single pixels, like with sprites etc) in photoshop and naturally having troubles trying to deal with all this layer stuff. (Nope, I’m not going to use MS paint :P) A few easy questions for experts…

1) When I select a rectangular area, how can I make the selection become one single image (layer)? Flatten image does this for the entire image, not the selection.
3) Then how can I swap/change the pixel colors in this image?

Haven’t had any luck so far. Thanks for any help.

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edjh
Apr 12, 2004
loquak wrote:

I’m doing some per-pixel stuff (working with single pixels, like with sprites etc) in photoshop and naturally having troubles trying to deal with all this layer stuff. (Nope, I’m not going to use MS paint :P) A few easy questions for experts…

1) When I select a rectangular area, how can I make the selection become one single image (layer)? Flatten image does this for the entire image, not the selection.

Use Edit>Copy Merged, then with with selection still going Paste.

3) Then how can I swap/change the pixel colors in this image?
Not sure what you mean. Photoshop has lots of color changing tools. Hue and Saturation, Replace color, etc.

Haven’t had any luck so far. Thanks for any help.


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loquak
Apr 12, 2004
"edjh" wrote in message
loquak wrote:

I’m doing some per-pixel stuff (working with single pixels, like with sprites etc) in photoshop and naturally having troubles trying to deal
with
all this layer stuff. (Nope, I’m not going to use MS paint :P) A few
easy
questions for experts…

1) When I select a rectangular area, how can I make the selection become
one
single image (layer)? Flatten image does this for the entire image, not
the
selection.

Use Edit>Copy Merged, then with with selection still going Paste.

That did the trick. Thanks!
3) Then how can I swap/change the pixel colors in this image?
Not sure what you mean. Photoshop has lots of color changing tools. Hue and Saturation, Replace color, etc.
Replace color did it fine, thank you. It really sucks to be a newbie 🙂

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