On 01/07/2011 10:12 PM, H. Karsten wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> It baffles me that in this day and age, people still use images with
>> dithering. I mean, how long have the display technologies and file
>> formats for true 24-bit colour been around?
>
> When I'm saving images not to show beauty but content, I always try to make them
> small.

You realise that /not/ dithering it down to 256 colours would probably 
make the file drastically /smaller/, right?

Anyway, I didn't mean to rant at you particularly. But I've noticed a 
lot of so-called "professional software" still has icons and things in 
256 or even 16 colours. For no apparent reason.

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