Wow, 8 colors is keen. That works for very plain counters I guess. I rarely go below 96 colors, usually just go for 256.
Adding the raised border will increase the counter size as the png compression scheme is affected by the number of color changes as you scan accross an image. Cheers, Brent. >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 22/10/2007 at 6:12 AM benw_h wrote: >Good tip. I'm doing something similar with Image Converter, although >curiously, 8 colour pngs makes all my pngs larger in terms of >filesize than they were before. > >--- In [email protected], "Brent Easton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> >> >> >All the counters are also png files. I have no idea what colour >depth >> >they have - didn't really think to look at it while making them >(they >> >were mostly made years ago as BMPs in Paint and ADC, then >converted). >> >Obviously the thought of going back and adjusting them is pretty >> >depressing, but if it's necessary then I'll do it. Presumably the >way >> >to do this (using Gimp) is to switch the mode to Index and reduce >the >> >number of colours, then save once more as a PNG? >> >> Install Image-magick and create a batch script that for each file >does >> >> convert old/file.bmp +dither -colors 256 -strip new/file.png >> >> Try adding -raise 2x2 for a touch of spice. >> >> Cheers, >> Brent. >> __________________________________________________________ >> Brent Easton >> Analyst/Programmer >> University of Western Sydney >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > ____________________________________________________________ Brent Easton Analyst/Programmer University of Western Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
