Good tip. I'm doing something similar with Image Converter, although curiously, 8 colour pngs makes all my pngs larger in terms of filesize than they were before.
--- In [email protected], "Brent Easton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >All the counters are also png files. I have no idea what colour depth > >they have - didn't really think to look at it while making them (they > >were mostly made years ago as BMPs in Paint and ADC, then converted). > >Obviously the thought of going back and adjusting them is pretty > >depressing, but if it's necessary then I'll do it. Presumably the way > >to do this (using Gimp) is to switch the mode to Index and reduce the > >number of colours, then save once more as a PNG? > > Install Image-magick and create a batch script that for each file does > > convert old/file.bmp +dither -colors 256 -strip new/file.png > > Try adding -raise 2x2 for a touch of spice. > > Cheers, > Brent. > ____________________________________________________________ > Brent Easton > Analyst/Programmer > University of Western Sydney > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
