Re: Low Quality Gifs

[Alan Buxey]

hi,

> As an example http://www.stutchbury.com/images/projects.gif versus a similar
> image in PNG format at http://www.stutchbury.com/images/projects_d.png .
> 
> It is on the conversion to 'indexed' that the degradation occurs.
> 
> Any ideas?

sure that your PNG image is also being shrunk down to 8-bit?
 
GIF cannot have multi-transparency mapping. only one alpha level - whereas
PNG can have nice blended transparency.

in basic, PNG is a better image format

alan