Yea it's a very uncommon thing, but I am working with J2ME apps for mobile phones. Part of making an app smaller in filesize or take less memory on a mobile device is to optimize images and explore different image types. Some apps we've come across have code that specifically needs something like an image to be e.g. "2-bit grayscale" in order for something to happen (or another example having to do with palettes... that it requires colour "3,3,3" to be in position 4 of the palette).
I would appreciate sub-8bit support in GIMP... it would definately be a reason for me to use the program more often. Not many people would need this kind of stuff tho =). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:13 PM To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Disadvantage of GIMP when compared to Photoshop On Thursday 05 May 2005 12:17, Kalle Ounapuu wrote: > > One of the things I've noticed is that Adobe Photoshop (and the > > PSD file format) does not allow Indexed images with multiple > > layers. If you save to any format other than XCF you cannot be > > sure all features will be supported. > > Amen to that! That is one thing I wished Photoshop had... saving an > Indexed PSD with layers. Also support for sub-8bit Indexed mode > (e.g. 2bit, 4bit, etc)... currently I only know of Paintshop Pro > that can do that (though it's buggy). Nobody have asked, that I recall, saving in indexed formats with 2 and 4 bit. This is not hard to do code in the GIMP PNG and maybe some other format. (bmp, or tiff) Do you need this feature? > > Another thing I wish for Photoshop is a hard 1-pixel eraser in RGB > mode (that acts just like the 1-pixel erase in Indexed mode). > Bringing down square brush size to 1 and hardness to 100%, you have > bleeding/softness around the area you are erasing. > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
