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indexing into 8-bit - griddx - 03-22-2019 When i try to index a 24-bit image with less than 16 colors (with the default indexing settings), gimp reduces the bit depth to 4-bit, but i need it to be 8-bit. Is there any way i can stop gimp from reducing the bit depth too much? RE: indexing into 8-bit - rich2005 - 03-22-2019 Are you really using Windows 95? What version of Gimp? Those questions are not there just to annoy you Give more details of the image and Image format. Post an example if possible of the image from a WinXP machine. A quick convert from RGB to Indexed with 12 colours and a default export to png works here. Edit: A bit more digging and it does look like 4 bit is correct. Using Imagemagick it says 8 bit sRGB and then lists the (12) colour map. Further down in Properties it does say 4 bit. Converting the same to 256 colours and it reports 8 bit. Needs a bit more investigation. Code: Image: 1.png see: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#png Sub-Formats for the png types. Other formats, I do not know. RE: indexing into 8-bit - Ofnuts - 03-22-2019 You can color-index, and then artificially grow the color map to contain more than 16 entries (Windows>Dockable dialog>Color map, and hit the + button until you have more than 16 colors. The extra colors won't be used by the indexing but will force a 8-bit colormap to be used. RE: indexing into 8-bit - rich2005 - 03-23-2019 I went similar way as well but 17 colours then edited the colours to duplicated colours reducing the number of actual colours to (example) 12. Ofnuts method is better. I am still wondering why the requirement for 8 bit and also the actual file format. gif / png / tiff. ? RE: indexing into 8-bit - griddx - 03-25-2019 Thanks for the replies. Ofnuts' method worked for me. |