Yes,  getting the colors is easy.....I've had irfanview for a while now...
although I didn't know about exporting to a .PAL file...
Its putting them together in the right way in pov code thats the hard part
for me. I got a rather nice blood-wood though...


Gary

"Mike Williams" <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote in message
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> Wasn't it miriam english who wrote:
> >"Gary Blessing" <ble### [at] icefognet> wrote:
> >
> >> I can modify the colors alright, just not
> >> to what I want...
> >
> >If you use MSWindows get a wonderful little program called Irfanview
> >http://irfanview.com (it is free for non-commercial use) and display a
> >picture of the wood. Now click on the part that you want the color of and
> >irfanview will show the color codes in the title bar. It is a simple
> >process to enlarge the image and click on parts of the picture and note
> >down all the values.
>
> What I tend to do is to use Irfanview to decrease the number of colours
> in the image to something manageable and then use Image=>Export_Palette.
> This creates a .PAL file which is an ASCII text file containing three
> header lines (Identifier, version, number of colours) then a list of the
> RGB values. Grab the list of RGB values and divide by 256.
>
> --
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

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