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                                <td width="562"><h3 align="left">Tips and Known 
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                                    <h4 align="left">Tips<hr size="1" width="50%"
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                                        <li><div align="left">It's much easier 
                                        to see the source intensity of your 
                                        image by converting it to a grey image, 
                                        either by using your host application's 
                                        Greyscale function or using the companion 
                                        <b>PhotoGrey</b> plugin. If you change 
                                        the type of image to greyscale (256 
                                        colours) you also save memory, useful 
                                        for very large (print resolution) files.</div>
                                        <li><div align="left">Although the Sketcher 
                                        plugin provides versatile controls to 
                                        adjust the density and contrast in its 
                                        effects, often the quickest way to get 
                                        the look you are after is not to change 
                                        the plugin settings but to vary your 
                                        source image using the Brightness, Contrast, 
                                        Gamma correction and Histogram functions 
                                        of your graphics application. By just 
                                        using these functions and the Sketcher 
                                        plugins default .sms effects files you 
                                        have access to a lot of different images 
                                        from the same source. </div>
                                        <li><div align="left">Remember to use 
                                        uncompressed greyscale bitmaps for your 
                                        stroke maps and paper textures. </div>
                                        <li><div align="left">When creating 
                                        high resolution sketches for print, 
                                        high supersampling isn't necessary; 
                                        you should set <font color="navy"><b>Smoothing</b></font> 
                                        to 4 at most. But you will need to increase 
                                        the scaling for each level media (stroke 
                                        maps and paper). Look out for updated 
                                        settings files and stroke maps from 
                                        <b>Little Ink Pot</b> designed exclusively 
                                        for print. </div>
                                        <li><div align="left">The settings file 
                                        &quot;Halftone.sms&quot; applies the 
                                        paper texture as a halftone pattern. 
                                        Changing the file can produces differing 
                                        halftone effects. To create your own 
                                        halftone patterns, create a greyscale 
                                        image with the highest value limited 
                                        to 230 (light grey) instead of 255 (white). 
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                                    <h4 align="left">Known Issues<hr size="1"
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                                    <p align="left">Though extensively tested 
                                    and evaluated to make it's use as problem 
                                    free as possible, as with all but the simplest 
                                    of software there are to be expected some 
                                    issues with the Sketcher plugin which might 
                                    mess things up a bit. These will be addressed 
                                    where possible in future updates, but until 
                                    then here's a list of the known problems 
                                    and how to avoid them. 
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                                        <li><div align="left">There's a bug 
                                        with irregular sized media source images 
                                        which causes corrupted rendering of 
                                        the graphics data. This doesn't usually 
                                        become apparent in use as most media 
                                        images are saved in regular sizes, but 
                                        when&nbsp;creating stroke maps and papers 
                                        be sure your stroke maps and papers 
                                        are horizontally sized in multiples 
                                        of 4. eg. 640 pixels wide (= 160 x 4), 
                                        1280, 1600, 16 pixels wide etc. </div>
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