Let's Make Smilies!

[Protok St]

...I really ought to redo the SMACX leaderheads bigger and all the same size...

I can propose to measure the size by the faces without caps.

[Buster's Uncle]

So you start with this, of course:

Now, GIMP has a nice Deinterlace feature.  Image>Mode>RGB, then Filters>Enhance>Deinterlace.  A popup asks for Keep odd fields or Keep even fields.

Choosing odd yields this:  and choosing even, this:  -The latter definitely better than odd/dark, but not good.

So what I did was this:  opening a Layers box -Windows>Dockable Dialogs>Layers- I duplicated the original interlaced shot I cropped out of the Belivers' faction .pcx.  -Layer>Duplicate Layer.-  You can also right-click on the layers box to do that.

NOW, I deinterlaced both copies, one even and the other odd.  I made sure the upper layer was selected by clicking on it, and slid the Opacity slider up top to 50%.

Then Image>Merge Visible Layers>Clicked Clipped to image in the popup>Merge.  The result was nice w/ most of the bad details in the respective deinterlaces smoothed out/corrected, but a teeny bit dark.  So, Colors>Brightness-Contrast>upped both exactly 20% and saved the result as a .png.

Cool job! Thanks for sharing your experience Buster's Uncle!
Have you a guide for doing opposite? Making normal graphic to interlaced as SMAC?

...Years ago.

https://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=28

Copiously screenshotted for your ease of following...

[Protok St]

...Years ago.

[Graphics] Scanlines in GIMP Made Simple, Fast & Easy

Copiously screenshotted for your ease of following...

Awesome! 
/petting his pet/

[Buster's Uncle]

Roze was tough to wake up to...



...It's the spiky hair.  Opposite of Miriam.

[Buster's Uncle]

This one was tedious, too, what w/ the head tentacles and earrings...



Aki's going to also be unfun what with the curls...

[Buster's Uncle]

At least Aki's curls are pretty...






And Domai was fairly easy to cut out.

[Protok St]

All the Alpha Centauri faction leaders are a great work of art. For me.

/petting his pet/

[Buster's Uncle]

Well now for not-so-great.



Celebrating his 22nd year of being everyone's least favorite, It's Cha.

[Buster's Uncle]

Sven wasn't a lot of trouble...

[Protok St]

Well now for not-so-great.

Celebrating his 22nd year of being everyone's least favorite, It's Cha.

In my hierarchy of preferable, Cha is staying above the Lal and Morgan.

[Buster's Uncle]

Marr was almost cooperative.





-Thought of an improvement to Aki, then I'm going in.  -The reductions are no trouble at this point...

[Buster's Uncle]

Okydoke:

     

Oh MAN, I can't get over how much better everyone looks now.

-I gave Marr an extra 5 pixels tall and H'minee three, 'cause their heads are so much taller than human they reduced skinny and looking tiny by comparison.    They're not in proportion, but better.  Better crop of Lal's head this time, too.

This is a big improvement to all -not least because I worked around the pixelated edges this time- and it's retroactive to every use of the previous versions ever.

I had to evict E_T and the clap smilie from the post form to make room for Aki's curly hair and still keep it to one line...

[Protok St]

Okydoke:

     

 

[Geo]

With the puffy coup, Aki comes out best here.

[Buster's Uncle]

  Most improved human, maybe.  Marr probably most improved of all.