Beginner question – batch color change?

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May 20, 2006
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Hi. Excuse the newbie question, please. 😉 I don’t do much work with computer images. Everything I’ve wanted to do with bitmaps up until now I could do with old versions of Paint Shop Pro or whatever. I now have access to my brother’s copy of Photoshop. I’ve looked for the answer to this in the help sections, have tinkered with the batch options, etc, and I’m usually pretty computer savvy, but I cannot figure out how do do something that SEEMS like it should be pretty simple.

My question: is there a way to tell the program to open every .bmp file in a specified location, and then convert every pixel of HTML color A to a pixel of HTML color B? (And save all images, obviously.) These are big bitmaps I have, but not at all complicated – 2 colors only, actually. But I need several versions of them, where the only difference is one of the colors. If I have to do this color replacing manullay it will take a good bit of time, obviously. This seems like something that Photoshop version 1 would’ve been able to do, but for the life of me I cannot get it to do what I want….

Thanks. Any help is appreciated!

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sttp
May 20, 2006
Oops… that would be "manually." 😉

Thanks again.

"sttp" wrote in message
Hi. Excuse the newbie question, please. 😉 I don’t do much work with computer images. Everything I’ve wanted to do with bitmaps up until now I could do with old versions of Paint Shop Pro or whatever. I now have access to my brother’s copy of Photoshop. I’ve looked for the answer to this in the help sections, have tinkered with the batch options, etc, and I’m usually pretty computer savvy, but I cannot figure out how do do something that SEEMS like it should be pretty simple.

My question: is there a way to tell the program to open every .bmp file in a specified location, and then convert every pixel of HTML color A to a pixel of HTML color B? (And save all images, obviously.) These are big bitmaps I have, but not at all complicated – 2 colors only, actually. But I need several versions of them, where the only difference is one of the colors. If I have to do this color replacing manullay it will take a good bit of time, obviously. This seems like something that Photoshop version 1 would’ve been able to do, but for the life of me I cannot get it to do what I want….

Thanks. Any help is appreciated!

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sttp
May 21, 2006
Got it. Decided to just record a macro. Good enough!

"sttp" wrote in message
Hi. Excuse the newbie question, please. 😉 I don’t do much work with computer images. Everything I’ve wanted to do with bitmaps up until now I could do with old versions of Paint Shop Pro or whatever. I now have access to my brother’s copy of Photoshop. I’ve looked for the answer to this in the help sections, have tinkered with the batch options, etc, and I’m usually pretty computer savvy, but I cannot figure out how do do something that SEEMS like it should be pretty simple.

My question: is there a way to tell the program to open every .bmp file in a specified location, and then convert every pixel of HTML color A to a pixel of HTML color B? (And save all images, obviously.) These are big bitmaps I have, but not at all complicated – 2 colors only, actually. But I need several versions of them, where the only difference is one of the colors. If I have to do this color replacing manullay it will take a good bit of time, obviously. This seems like something that Photoshop version 1 would’ve been able to do, but for the life of me I cannot get it to do what I want….

Thanks. Any help is appreciated!

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