Black and White Graphics
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| Created simple greyscale graphic and saved in PSP format at 12 KB. |
A) Saved to JPG format - 5 KB. |
B) Saved to GIF (256 colors greyscale) - 3 KB. |
C) Decreased color depth to 16 colors greyscale - 2 KB. |
D) Decreased color depth to 2 colors greyscale - 1 KB. |
| The 16 color graphic (image C) would be used on a web site since it is the smallest in size (2 KB) without a major loss in quality when compared visually to the original image. |
Converting color images to greyscale
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A) Original photo of Pinhey's Point in JPG format. |
B) Converted to PSP 16.7 million colors - 1165 KB. Then converted from PSP to 256 GreyScale - 406 KB. |
C) Converted to 16 GreyScale - 121 KB. |
D) Converted to 2 GreyScale - 13 KB. |
| The 16 color graphic (image C) would be used on a web site since it is the smallest in size (121 KB) without a major loss in quality when compared visually to the 256 greyscale image. |
