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RE: filmscanners: Encoding/compression Was:CD storage
Hi,
>Not exactly. GIF only allows 256 colours or 256 shades of grey. It uses
>(I think) LZW compression internally so it is lossless as far as editing
>is concerned but if you save a 24bit image to a GIF you *WILL* lose colour
>data. GIFs are significantly smaller because you are going from 3 colour
>channels to 1.
Oops. Forgot about the limited color space of GIFs... :-)
Tom
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