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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: SS 16 color pallete horrible for Netscape....?
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 00:58:07 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Joseph Thomas (benjamin@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
-
- : When I run Netscape, the 16 color greyscales look fine for inlined
- : images, but in color, images look so poor that they can't be
- : recognized. Perhaps this is because I'm only using 16 colors, but
- : could it be because my color palette is incorrect?
-
- I never tried with 16 colors. I tried with 256, Thousands and Millions of
- colors. In 256 colors the palette is a lot worse on some pictures. It's
- quite hard to reduce a picture to 16 colors. Look at the different results
- ADPro, or ImageFX have with this. Now consider the fact that there are
- multiple images all dithered to 16 colors. You need some very well-optimized
- code to get reasonable results (if possible)
-
- Try 256 colors (if possible), it should be better...
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
-