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Re: gif from true color image [message #28822]

Wed, 16 January 2002 05:26

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Klaus Scipal (kscipal@ipf.tuwien.ac.at) writes:

> I am displaying some images on a true color device. My problem is when I
> want to save these images as gifs, some colors get "distorted" (i.e white
> becomes gray etc). I know the reason, transforming the image from true color
> to 256 colors.
>
> So is there a way to preserve colors, i.e the gif image looks like the true
> color image on my device (I know I can change the settings of my computer to
> 256 colors but this is annoying).

Here is an article that describes the problem and how to
attempt to correct it:

http://www.dfanning.com/color_tips/gif_gray.html

Cheers,

David

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		Re: gif from true color image By: David Fanning on Wed, 16 January 2002 05:26
		Re: gif from true color image By: Martin Downing on Wed, 16 January 2002 03:51
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