[CF List] png images

[Jeffrey Hantin]

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      For what you're suggesting, you'd have to view your images in both
     
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      modes, then go back and tweak the high-color images, and repeat this
     
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      process until _both_ sets looked good.  The graphics people usually
     
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      found it was a lot less work to create their images in 256-color or
     
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      3:3:2 color mode to start with.
     
     
My usual technique is to draw an icon image in 4-bit RGBI or 3:3:2 
true-color to begin with, using dithering and pointillism to generate 
the subtle shading in that mode, then copy it up to a higher mode and 
replace the dotty stuff with true shading.  That's still sort of 
double work though.