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Maltese_Falcon · 2013-03-30 17:46:19

Hello, fellow Scratchers.

I have been creating sprites and such, and I've been noticing something very strange. When you select black, sometimes the fill tool is not exactly the same color as the line, paintbrush, rectangle, and oval tools.
The black fill turns into a dark bluish color, making everything look sloppy and unprofessional. So then I have to go and use the black paintbrush and paint everything, which wastes precious minutes I could be using to program! Has anyone else noticed this?
Sincerely,
Maltese_Falcon

7734f · 2013-03-30 18:09:49

Maybe it's a glitch with your computer, or your eyes. I don't notice anything.

Maltese_Falcon · 2013-03-30 18:14:23

Must be my computer. I have 20/15 vision. What a normal person can see at 20 feet away, I can see at 15 feet away. So it's not my eyes. If I could post pictures, I'd show you a screenshot I took and you could see for yourself.

Sellout · 2013-03-30 18:41:44

That's really strange. I've never seen that happen before.

You can't post pictures or make hyperlinks but you can still just post links to the pictures

(like this - http://i.imgur.com/Ai988Ut.png)

Could you try doing that?

Maltese_Falcon · 2013-03-31 19:50:09

Well, I think I figured out WHY it's doing that. Now I just need to figure out how to stop it from doing that.

WHY: It's saving room. With the Fill tool, a completely black (Dark blue) background with a little green text is 2 kb. If you paint it black, so that it's actually black, it's 13 kb.

But I'd still like it to stop.

Gravitation · 2013-04-01 03:03:05

Maltese_Falcon wrote:
WHY: It's saving room. With the Fill tool, a completely black (Dark blue) background with a little green text is 2 kb. If you paint it black, so that it's actually black, it's 13 kb.

But I'd still like it to stop.

NOT WHY: It's because you used the paintbrush tool, meaning that your brush shape and strokes are still saved, meaning more nodes, thus, more space. It's the paintbrush tool, not the color, that's making the size grow. Colors in vector graphics are kept in hex format, and all colors have the same length of code: for example, white is ffffff, black is 000000.

I'll investigate. :3

joefarebrother · 2013-04-01 03:13:16

The reason why is that hex colour 000000 is reserved for transparent, so instead of black they use 000001 which is dark blue.

I don't know why they do it like that.