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September 17th, 2007, 06:17 PM
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Re: Converting Common Image files to RGB or TAG Fi
I think its one of the "plugins". Mine has a ton of plugins.
I dont remember which ones I got for what purposes.
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September 17th, 2007, 06:40 PM
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Re: Converting Common Image files to RGB or TAG Fi
Oh well, I've got the GIMP and I know how to use it.
I can even type the above phrase without any second thoughts.
... I once checked a book about GIMP out of the library and got a few strange looks.
It is good to know you can google gimp and the first ten results will all be relevant and work safe.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gimp
See the second entry if the slang is unfamilar to you.
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September 17th, 2007, 10:19 PM
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Re: Converting Common Image files to RGB or TAG Fi
I love the O'Reilly books on deeper internet stuff. As an admin for internet servers its kindof required to have a shelffull even if you dont read them. But I love their "cookbooks" which are great for slightly ADD people like me. Lots of short little answers to common problems.
And I get great looks when its a Linx Cookbook or an AWK Cookbook or Python Cookbook. I was thinking one day that a GIMP Cookbook might be fun to carry around also.
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September 18th, 2007, 11:38 PM
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Re: Converting Common Image files to RGB or TAG Fi
RGB is a color space (red, green, blue), not a file format. Any 24 bit file format can be in the RGB color space.
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September 19th, 2007, 01:29 AM
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Re: Converting Common Image files to RGB or TAG Fi
"Color bitmap image format created by Silicon Graphics (SGI); generic format used for saving RGB color images on SGI workstations; recognized by various image viewing programs."
Extension ".rgb".
Just depends on the context.
Dominions3 supports both rgb & tga image files.
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September 19th, 2007, 02:05 AM
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Re: Converting Common Image files to RGB or TAG Fi
I assume then, Lingchih is incorrect - rgb _is_ refering to the file extension, isn't it? Not that I can see a reason to not save a map as a TGA, since I usually use GIMP, but...
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September 19th, 2007, 11:55 AM
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Re: Converting Common Image files to RGB or TAG Fi
Short Answer: They are both correct.
longer Answer:
Back when one-color monitors were going out of style RGB only referred to the "new" color monitors (Red Green Blue). Around the same time, one of the main drawing softwares of the day developed a new format for color.
Side Note:
The reason its RGB and not RBY. In school you learned that the primary colors were Red Blue Yellow. All colors were some blend of those, and all of them together made black and none made white. They called it the color wheel, but should have said the color wheel for solids (reflected light).
What they didnt teach in my day (and definetly should now) is that the color wheel for direct light is Red Green Blue with all mixed being white and none being black. Its becoming more and more important to know the RGB mixes since thats what is involved in monitors, tv, internet viewing, PC software, lasers, and coming up in holograms
There is also another wheel called subtractive which is CMY (Cyan Magenta Yellow). Very important to inks and printers.
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