Message-Id: <mailto:199409150321.WAA25515@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 09:00:41 -0500 From: Nick Cahill <mailto:ndcahill@FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU> Subject: Re: 8-bit vs. 24-bit color To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
>I hate to just interject here, but...
>what about black and white images? Would it make sense to go with 24 bit
>or 8?
>
>Matthew Gilmore
mailto:>mailto:mgilmore@capcon.net >
No it doesn't make sense to use 24 bit pix for b/w images, in fact they often look worse when translated to 24 bits and then compressed with JPEG. GIF, PICT or any other format which uses some form of run-length encoding ought to give good quality and small file size. I was talking more about photographic images than document storage.
Nick Cahill