Routine cardmaking. Take a pic, paste it onto a neutral blue card sized bmp, save, load in RebEd. Never had any problems. Sure, colors were distorted, but ever since I used Photoshop and color palettes, the changes are acceptable.

But not this time.

Routine procedure, all is well, but when I load the bmp into RebEd and use the 'autogenerate' function (best way to test really quickly) the BG remains blue. Jaw drops.

Tried various approaches: save pic without applying palette first, apply palette and save, paste the intended pic onto an existing and functioning one - not working. Fun thing is, when I erased the foreground and loaded just the blue, i got a perfect BG. When I use the Tac palette instead of the Strat one, BG works, but pic is ugly.

So is the card foreground able to mess with the BG even though the BG color remains the same al the time? WTF?!

Corner pixels should be the same as the BG color!

 

Oh.

That explains a lot.

 

Problem solved.

Actually, the bottom left corner pixel will suffice

I had forgotten which was it, so better have them all!

Just a few weeks ago you complained about my vague rule of thumb, now ...

Got me there.

 

The Pi mal Daumen rule is almost as vague as street address down here...

 

(Example: "From the Mango Tree a few blocks north, there's a black car parked in front of a yellow house. Behind that house there's another street. There go right, left , right until you find my house.") That was the address to a party or something, suprisingly no one got lost.