Re: FLASH: Image quality

[Richard McLean]

>Reducing unneeded details in a picture will generally make it compress

>better. By reducing the color set you combine small ares of similar

>color into larger areas, this results in an image that will compress

>better in most any format including jpeg.



John is correct in saying that reducing detail will give you smaller 

files when compressed with JPEG. But reducing the number of colours 

can actually lead to larger JPEGs, as they always work in a 24-bit 

space (meaning they have to convert from 8-bit to 24-bit on 

conversion).



kind regards,

Richard McLean



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