[Qgis-developer] 8-bit colour ramps?

2012-08-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
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

Re: [Qgis-developer] 8-bit colour ramps?

2012-08-09 Thread Etienne Tourigny
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.