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Author Topic: Saving in PNG format always shows 16M colors  (Read 5,726 times)

KejZ

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Saving in PNG format always shows 16M colors
« on: March 30, 2009, 02:25 PM »
Hi,

I have "Color Depth: 8bit ColorMap" in Settings, but
saving in PNG Advanced dialog always says "Colors: 16M".
I have to set it to 256 every time.

What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Saving in PNG format always shows 16M colors
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2009, 06:02 PM »
i've never actually tried this.. i'll look into it.

KejZ

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Re: Saving in PNG format always shows 16M colors
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2009, 02:14 PM »
i've never actually tried this.. i'll look into it.

Interesting  :).

By the way, I always worry about space, that's why I select 256 colors.
What do I gain/lose by using 16M colors? These PNGs are going to the
web exclusively, no printing or high-quality docs and such.

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