I DARE YOU: To color.. THIS.

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That's interesting.
Could you please write the procedure point by point?

Yes, I will. I'll try to type it up no later than this Monday and I'll post it in this thread.

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I'm using the Colors! DS app that was designed for Games n Music DS. v.1.06h.

Can I ask what other versions of Colors there are please? And how does one know which one is which and where to find them?

Pod.

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Well Pod,waay back in '07 when I was a homebrew noob I read about two cool homebrew apps called Colors! DS and Inchworm DS. One is free and was already available to the public and the other was not available to the public and when it becomes so it will be available for purchase. (That is if it' hasn't started being sold through DSiWare.) Needless to say, I bought a Nintendo DS Lite and asked a relative to buy Games 'n' Music DS for me. Back then, the downloads section had a Games 'n' Music DS version. It's just like the one you're using now but, created for the Games 'n' Music DS flashcart. Out of the box it has video capabilities and .mp3 support. A year or so ago, I lost some really good paintings I did using Colors! DS. I mean really good. And, because I was using a microSD card that was only about three hundred and something MBs it crashed on me when I was out of town and couldn't take anything off before that happend. I ran out of space on the flashcart. I wish I could get those files off and continue working on them. As to the number of versions of Colors! DS; I'm not sure. The two currently released versions I know of and have in my flashcart are the regular v.Colors! v1.06h and, the Games 'n' Music version which is the same as the the aforementioned version. And, of course there's the older versions. Colors! v1.06g and, Colors! v1.05. I've never used them before so I can't say anything about them. The Games 'n' Music version is no longer available on the downloads page. You'll have to ask Jetboy for a copy. You don't really need it as the current version of Colors! DS is the same thing as the GnM one. The GnM version will say "games_n_music" in the file name whereas, the regular version will say only "colors or, colors_ds" in the file name. Again, it's the same software. You're not missing out on anything.

@Jetboy: I'll give you a reply later today. Btw, why couldn't I upload any .jpgs? I had to go to an external site to upload an image of my process about making this work. Although, if a user doesn't have an image editor like Adobe Photoshop this workaround process will not work for them. I assume this workaround will no longer be needed for the next gen version of Colors! DS.

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That's interesting.
Could you please write the procedure point by point?

Sorry for not answering sooner. RL got in the way. I'll post a reply by tomorrow on this post.

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Jetboy, this is a total work-around that I've found works when we want to place an image into the .png to be painted. I assume the next-gen version of Colors! DS will not need such a work-around. If you have an image editing program such as Adobe Photoshop it's easy to do this. Without it I'm not sure. Anyway, here it is.

The iPod/iPhone png is 440x320 ppi whereas the DS Lite is 512x384 ppi. Open both files in Photoshop. Duplicate the layer of the source file (iPod/iPhone png) to the destination file the (DS Lite png). Use the Scale Tool to scale the source image to the approximate the size you want and, save your file to the Colors folder. Otherwise you'll get a border around your painting. That may be a desirable thing in some instances but, not in others. However you orient your device of choice even when scaled up flush to the edges, the dimensions of the iPod/iPhone png and the DS Lite png are not exact so there will be some dead space on either the right and left or, the top and bottom of the canvas. I for one will be glad to not have to use this work-around when the next-gen version becomes available. Thank you, Kasumi for suggesting this. Here' s the link where he/she told me about it.
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=976
This is similar to placing an appropriately named, scaled, and pre-drawn art onto a png file and painting over it within Colors! DS. The only draw back is needing an image editing software to do this.