Message-Id: <mailto:199502090236.UAA21884@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 17:54:18 -0500 From: Dana Bonstrom <mailto:bonstrom@FAS.HARVARD.EDU> Subject: Re: Help! on file formats To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>Although, if you are taking screen shots from an 8bit (256 color) screen,
>you will only have 8 bit color when you go to edit the images.
>
>If you take the screen shots from a 16bit or 24 bit display, and the
>images on the CDROM are of similar bit depth, you will obtain the greater
>bit depth in your screen shot file.
>
>John Weise
>University of Michigan
Good point.
My experience is that, with the exception of PhotoCD discs, virtually all commercial CD-ROM titles to date have restricted themselves to 8 bits. Addressing the installed base, or most of it, I suppose.
Dana Bonstrom