User Guide

Academic Courseware: Chapter 1
Joyce Ryan
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3 Go to Effects > Tonal Control > Video Legal Colors. Choose NTSC.
Notice how different the red looks in NTSC.
Visually reduce the number of colors in an image
1 Choose File > Save As and name your image file. Choose the GIF file
format, and click Save. Click OK to dismiss the layer warning, if
displayed.
2 In the Save As GIF Options dialog box, in the Number of Colors
area, choose 256 colors. In the preview window, the image appears in
256 colors.
3 Change the number of colors to 128. In the preview window, the
image appears in 128 colors. Continue reducing the number of colors
NTSC (National Television
Standards Committee) is often
jokingly referred to as “Never Twice
the Same Color.” Video can’t display
the pure bright red you see on a
computer monitor. That is why you
want to look at your work on an
NTSC monitor if you are working for
video. Corel Painter has a special filter
that ensures your animation will be
compatible with both NTSC for the
U.S. and Pal (Phase Alternation by
Line) for European video systems.
When you have finished
making a movie, you can also run a
script in Corel Painter that will apply
the NTSC filter and convert your
movie to video-safe colors.