Someone on gis.stackexchange.com:
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/29357/how-to-improve-the-display-of-color-images
says, about colour ramps:
but in ArcGIS and QGIS, they don't seem to be easily usable for a
finished product because their complexity causes obvious steps rather
than a
Hi,
actually #abcdef is 24 bits, but every color channel is 8 bits only
(0-255). The author mixes up a few concepts, because when you have
8-bit color channels you have an 24-bit palette. The author is trying
to refer to deep-color (30/36/48-bit) RGB colors which offer a wider
spectrum of colors.