I stand corrected by the master. I meant gif and wrote tiff. Doh!
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Taylor Barcroft
New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist
Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley
http://FutureMedia.org



On Sep 1, 2005, at 7:34 PM, Verdi wrote:

> On Sep 1, 2005, at 9:03 PM, Kunga wrote:
>
>
>> Yeah those artifacts are typical of tiff graphics. Avoid tiff.
>>
>
> Those are definitely not tiff artifacts.  Tiff files are typically
> uncompressed and are used as a source format for graphic design.  The
> file on his website is a .gif.  When you open it and look at it with
> Photoshop it says it contains only 79 colors.  Those "artifacts" are
> caused by dithering - which is a process that helps to create the
> illusion of more colors by placing pixels of different colors next to
> one another.  It's kind of like those paintings by Georges Seurat.
> -- 
> Verdi
> <URL: http://michaelverdi.com/ >
> <URL: http://freevlog.org/ >
> <URL: http://node101.org/ >
>



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