Short: Magic workbench backdrops Author: Trevor Morris Type: pix/icon Version: 1.1 (26.06.94) Architecture: generic Requirements: Amiga OS 2.x+ Filename: MagicWBPix.lha Unpackwith: lha -ax e MagicWBPix.lha Long: The original archive contains this text file, a prefs drawer (with 16 magic workbench images in the patterns drawer, a presets drawer, and the env-archive drawer), a piece of a startup-sequence in the s: dir, and a rand command in the c: dir., as well as two sample pictures grabbed from my WB. The s: dir just shows a piece of a s-s which I use to get random backdrops (it's pretty self explainatory :) prefs:wbpattern prefs:presets/wbpattern`c:rand 1 12`.pre use The c: dir contains a randomizer written by Troy Morehouse, which is required by the s-s script. Rand will take a first and a second number and randomize your images between the two intervals. The way I work the process is to use the WBPattern prefs and save a preset for each picture I want to randomize (in my case: wbpatternX.pre), and then simply call that prefix with wbpattern in the s-s with the randomized portion in "tilde quotes," as shown above (if in doubt, just cut and paste the piece of this s-s into yours and copy the presets I've included into your prefs:presets drawer). And the patterns dir which I keep in the prefs: drawer contains about 16 pics (of which I personally only use the first 12). I DID draw all of these however, very few are from my own imagination...Amy the Squirrel and some other Cat Lady (by Eric Schwartz), Cool World's Holly Wood (?), and some other pix which I've gotten from somewhere and then fixed them up and made them Magic Workbench "compatable." If you want to make your own, here's how I do it...first I find a pic I like (go figure), scan or digitize it (if it isn't already an image), then run it through ADPro with the 8 color magic workbench palette locked...TWICE! (once with Floyd dithering on, and then a second with it off. The reason: some parts of the pick will look good dithered, and others won't, so I pick pieces out of each to make the final image). Next spend anywhere from a couple of days to a week or more fixing the image up (hand antialiasing, dithering...). One tip: sometimes it's easiest to just trace the outline of the pic out in DPaint (which I use to draw the images, with a little pre-ADPro help from OpalPaint), and then fill in the detail from scratch (it depends on the complexity of the image). Finally the crap about keeping the archive in tact...blah, blah, blah: Distribute this archive how you like: in pieces if you like, or a collection of corrupted images without this text...whatever. Money: don't want any...enjoy them (God knows you won't get anything else in life for FREE!) If you like these just say HI! (or give me some of your cool pix). Copyright? okay would you believe these are copywritten?...!? :) Enjoy, Trevor M. P.S. Thanx for magic workbench Martin Huttenloher