[CF List] png images

[Norbert Irmer]

Frank McKenney wrote:

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      I worked with a local graphics company a few years back when reasonably-
     
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      priced 8-bit color was a relatively new thing:  I contributed some
     
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      technical expertise, and they knew "what looked good".  It was a
     
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      definite "learning experience" (;-).
     
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      If one's normal working environment is "lotsa colors" (e.g.  24-bit,
     
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      8:8:8 color) it can be extremely difficult to create _good_ 256 color or
     
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      3:3:2 color images.  It's all to easy to create a stunning 8:8:8 color
     
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      image whose impact turns around the use of subtle shadings; when these
     
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      are converted ("butchered") to fit a palette (or the fixed palette of
     
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      3:3:2 color) those shadings are often lost.  What was an amazing 8:8:8
     
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      red robe becomes a blob with perhaps two shades of red.
     
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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.
     
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Hi,

I was thinking at the future.

In a few years nobody will use 8 bit displays anymore. So why spend much
time on creating fine-tuned images for 8-bit color palettes - since these
images, as good as they may be, could look even better on 24 bit displays
when done in 8:8:8.

Don't misunderstand me, I like the current xpm graphics very much, and i
didn't meant to offend someone.

But i think, if there must be new graphics, then better in 8:8:8 right
from the beginning. Or at least, the original high color graphics should
be kept somewhere in the CVS archive, when they are reduced to 8 bit. 

Norbert