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Title: Windows Snaps --> Dos Snaps (How?)
Post by: Halo on December 03, 2004, 09:39:47 am

Okay, I think I got muddled - so I'm posting again.

I need to convert My MAME32 snaps to work in AdvanceMenu / ArcadeOS.

I have photoshop - if someone can walk me through how to convert them, I'd be extremely grateful. An explanation would also help, as I'm not entirely sure what the difference is - only that my MAME snaps won't work in dos.

Thanks :)

Title: Re: Windows Snaps --> Dos Snaps (How?)
Post by: JoyMonkey on December 03, 2004, 09:43:21 am

I think you need to convert them to 256 color mode (8-bit). But I thought AdvanceMenu could handle 16-bit. I know for a fact that ArcadeOS will only display 8-bit snaps.
What version of PhotoShop do you have? The recent versions have a nice batch feature that will automate the process for all your images. I'm not at a PhotoShop machine right now, but I'm sure someone else can walk you through it.

Title: Re: Windows Snaps --> Dos Snaps (How?)
Post by: screaming on December 03, 2004, 10:05:30 am

Quote from: Halo on December 03, 2004, 09:39:47 am

I need to convert My MAME32 snaps to work in AdvanceMenu / ArcadeOS.

I have photoshop - if someone can walk me through how to convert them, I'd be extremely grateful. An explanation would also help, as I'm not entirely sure what the difference is - only that my MAME snaps won't work in dos.

  I don't know much about the capabilities of ArcadeOS, but if you want a nice   handy image utility check out InfranView (http://www.irfanview.com/).  It's small, quick, FREE, and does batch processing! If you were to use this utility, you would:

1) Open up Infranview
2) Go to File->Batch Conversion/Rename
3) Navigate to where your 16-bit files are on the right-hand side. Select them all and click Add (or if you want to just add all the files in that folder, click Add all)
4) Enter the folder where the new images will be placed in the text box labeled Output directory
5) Click Set advanced options
6) Check CHANGE COLOR DEPTH
7) Uncheck RESIZE
8) Select 256 Colors (8BPP)
9) Uncheck Overwrite existing files, unless you're sure this is what you want to do!
10) Click OK, then Start

-Steve

Title: Re: Windows Snaps --> Dos Snaps (How?)
Post by: Halo on December 03, 2004, 12:37:22 pm

Awesome! Thanks a lot for the help, worked a treat :)

If someone has also done it in Photoshop CS, I'd appreciate knowing this one in PS too for future reference.

Thanks again!

Title: Re: Windows Snaps --> Dos Snaps (How?)
Post by: JoyMonkey on December 03, 2004, 12:45:05 pm

I've done it in CS, but as I said I don't have it in front of me so I'm not sure how acurate this will be.

Open one of your snaps.
Create a new action (icon to the left of the trashcan) in the Actions palette and hit record.
Select File>Save for Web and save the file in a new folder as a 256 color PNG-8 file.
Close the image.
Hit stop on the 'action recording' palettey thing.
Now, in the File menu go to Automate>Batch...
It opens a dialogue asking you for a source folder (your old snaps) and lets you select an action that you've recorded from the drop-down menu. Select the last action you recorded and hit OK.
It should open all your snaps, then save them as 256 color PNGs in your new folder.

Sorry if these instructions are way off, this is from my fuzzy memory.  :P