Hi! On Monday 25 June 2007, ying lcs wrote: > Thanks. Can you please tell me how can I reduce the color depth of my png > image? > > It currently has 24 color depth. I would like to reduce it to 8. how > can I do that in gimp? >
Try: Image -> Mode -> Indexed. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Thank you. > > On 6/25/07, vt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007 m. birželis 25 d., pirmadienis 09:44, ying lcs rašė: > > > Hi, > > > > > > How can I reduce the size of a png using gimp without losing much > > > quality? Two ideas I have are: > > > 1. reduce the color depth of the image > > > 2. increase the compression level of in the png > > > > > > Any more ideas? And can you please tell me how can I do #1, #2 in gimp? > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > And you can reduce size by > > 3. adjusting levels > > and/or by > > 4. reduceing number of colours used. > > > > By the way none of these ways is lossless. And you could use say jpg for > > smaller size. Or gif. > > > > 1. picture>mode>indexed > > 2. file>save as...><choose where to save to>>Compresion level 1...9 > > 9th level has best compression. You can choose some other options there > > too. 3.Layer>colors>levels > > 4. Layer>colors>color decrease (or something like that cause i use Gimp > > in my native language) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gimp-user mailing list > > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user