Labels:animal | book | cat | daily | gazette | lodestone | person | poster | reckoner | sky | windowpane OCR: 436 SECTION CHAPTER 8 COLOR DEPTH AND PALETTES What is color depth? As you learned in Chapter 2 color depth is the number colors available for use in an image As the number of colors increases, image quality improves, but file size also increases You can limit color depth to decrease the file size required for graphic To find out how this works, take look at the storage requirements for various color depths. Then you can turn to the procedures for reducing color depth. How does color depth relate to file size? To answer this question, go back to the old days of i computing when monitors were simple mono- chrome devices. Each screen pixel could be either "on" or "off. mono- chrome bitmap displayed by manipulating the pattern of "off' and "on' pixels displayed on-screen To store the data for ...
