Re: JPG Conversion

When you go from a JPG to a GIF, you go from 16,777,216 colors, to 256
colors, losing 16,776,960 colors! So of course you are going to loose some
quality.

If you have the HTML Help Construction Workshop
http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/htmlhelp/, the Image Editor that is
included is the best thing I have seen to reduce color depth. Just choose
whether it is a photo, or a drawing, and it does it for you.

Get Paint Shop Pro. It is the best flat image editor around.
http://www.jasc.com/

To reduce from 16 M to 256 colors in that, Go Image-Colors-Reduce to 256.

Choose standard palette and error diffusion. If you have a color depth
greater than 256 colors (e, 16,384 or 16,777216) then you can choose
Optimized Palette. But if someone in 256 colors looks at the photo if it is
optimized, then it is going to look even worse.

Andrew Tait atait(at)netc.net.au

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