Graphics
  1. Brennan Young shows how to
  2. crop an image to its Alpha boundaries without losing the regpoint.
  3. Lingo code for finding duplicate bitmaps
  4. Jim Collins shows an old Director trick for creating realistic drop shadows using inks and filmloops.
  5. crop shop a D7 utility will allows you to compare each image against a master reference image and it will automatically crop out what is the same as the reference image.
  6. Cropper is a visual tool which allows you to crop images directly in your movie's cast libraries, while keeping their regPoints intact.
  7. Capturing the stage image to a cast member in D7
  8. Importing Debabelized graphics using Miles Lightwood's Final Import script
  9. Converting a field to a bitmap via Lingo
  10. Director 7 Workshop HowTo: Export JPEGs with Director's own Xtras

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  11. AppleScript solution for removing the anti-aliasing halo from a 32 bit image with DeBabelizer
  12. Aunty Alias vs. the Jaggies by Jim Collins
  13. Several Tips for avoiding those annoying white outlines around graphics ("anti-anti-aliasing"?)
  14. Creating a paint cast member with a white border
  15. Three approaches for Importing PICT files

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  16. 8 to 16 tp 24 bit independent color references

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  17. Judging a good monitor

  18. Software for best color palette of full-screen image p a l e t t e s
  19. Creating and using custom palettes by Leslie Alperin
  20. direct-hex provides hexidecimal and RGB values for the director palette
  21. Dealing VGA vs Mac palletes
  22. The ins and outs of picking an optimum 8-bit palette for use on Mac and Windows

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  23. Using the fullColorPermit property for Win95 Projectors (for faster performance in 16 and 32 bit color depth environments)

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  24. 2000 Cast Members