MSX Drawing course?

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I never really used photoshop, tried it very briefly, but I had trouble finding the right options, and as I kinda know what to do in Paint shop pro, so far I've been reluctant to switch, but I'm aware that one can achieve much more with Photoshop.

About the reduction and scaling and GIF support:
Well,photoshop does that...suppose if you want to change a couple of pictures with exactly the same thing,
you can make a batch file and process them with a number of effects. You can even tell photoshop to tell
where (from which folder) to get the files from,and save them in another folder...
so,suppose you want to scale,flip and add more blue to 30 animation frames,you can make all of it an automated task....
pulldowns: windows>actions then you get the actions menu.

HIt the round "play" button on the right of the tab,choose :NEW SET,give it a name,and then do NEW ACTION,
and the recording button is lit.From here on,every effect you apply,including scaling and a lot more,will be recorded as a batch action.
So you can safely experiment with this,and when you're satisfied press stop in the "action" window (where the record button is too)
Now the fun begins...choose the pulldown "file" (top of the screen left) and automate...fill in the name of the batch and apply the serttings
for opening and saving (SOURCE and DESTINATION) and process the whole thing.

I agree, but it is also a case of how detailed the images have to be. For MSX gameGFX it is always good to use a real animation program, but for more detailed sprites e.g. 64x64, I still keep opening photoshop... But actually I do that with rescaling a normal image to the spritesize, after that I do the animations using the layers.

By the way, for the drawing course I will soon start drawing as I have found my drawing talet. (By the way, also nice for creating sprites!) I could have done a lot more if I had the philips MSX tablet, too bad...

and when it comes to scaling in photoshop,there's an option to switch anti aliasing off,which can be convenient if you want to keep the pixels intact and blow things up a little...under preferences you can switch the anti aliasing to "nearest neighbour" instead of "bicubic"...can be a neat way to make a small pixeldrawing into a larger one,without making it blurry

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