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Game Boy Camera Color filter holder
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The GameBoy camera is an awesome piece of technology. The look of it's photo's have a very distinct character, and although it's usually pretty hard to even see what is on the photo, I really like shooting photo's with it.
The camera only shoots pictures in 4 shades of gray, but with some trickery you can also create real color photo's with it.
The steps in a nutshell:
1. Take 3 photo's, one through a red color filter, one through a green color filter and one through a blue color filter.
2. Download these photo's to your computer. There are a couple of ways to do this. Please use google on this subject. I am using a simple [arduino with a link cable](https://github.com/mofosyne/arduino-gameboy-printer-emulator/blob/master/README.md).
3. Use Photoshop or Gimp to merge the three images as color chanels to create a color photo. In Gimp open the 3 photo's and make sure their color mode is Greyscale (Image -> Mode -> Grayscale). Then while one of the grayscale images is open c
The camera only shoots pictures in 4 shades of gray, but with some trickery you can also create real color photo's with it.
The steps in a nutshell:
1. Take 3 photo's, one through a red color filter, one through a green color filter and one through a blue color filter.
2. Download these photo's to your computer. There are a couple of ways to do this. Please use google on this subject. I am using a simple [arduino with a link cable](https://github.com/mofosyne/arduino-gameboy-printer-emulator/blob/master/README.md).
3. Use Photoshop or Gimp to merge the three images as color chanels to create a color photo. In Gimp open the 3 photo's and make sure their color mode is Greyscale (Image -> Mode -> Grayscale). Then while one of the grayscale images is open c
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