Dithering Advice...

[Squinky]

I saw a picture by accident on an ORIC site and tryed making a two color bg.....any advice?

[Keebo]

If only it were colour.... GREAT WORK!!! 

[James Kay]

Speccy-tastic!Ã, 

If you're using Photoshop, make a few custom brushes with different dithering patterns. Then just fill in an area with a flat colour on a seperate layer, equip your eraser tool with a dithering pattern, one click and hey presto! It's fairly easy stuff.

As for the above image - it's perfik.

[Layabout]

I think my eyes are burning...

I tried dithering once. As James said, custom brushes is the way to go...

[Evil]

Dithering isnt always just a checker pattern.

[stuh505]

not bad, but it's inverted!  yellow is much brighter than black and you have put yellow where the shadows are and black where the light is

[Squinky]

Coolness... I had thought about the yellow and black being inverted, but I was going off the style of an old oric pic....

I did this sucker at work where I have only the M$Paint, but I will try that brush thing out definately....Thanks all...

[Synthetique]

I see three colors!!
Nicely done there Squinky.

[Squinky]

Heh, well yeah, I wasn't counting the border though, heh.....Nice to see ya around again synth, been awhile...

[Synthetique]

it sure has..
nice to be remembered..

[Developer]

Your a good pixel artist, just work with colour and develop your own style.

[Pet Terry]

Actually, Squinky has his own style, known as 'the Squinky style!'.

I like it Squinks, I love dithering on backgrounds. I'd love to see a game made in this style! Maybe just not with colours that bright, but two colours only. I could imagine something Captain Mostly could come up with...