About Photoshop and skins...

[Rimac]

Hi
I have a doubt on making bmp for palm hires 16bit/OS5 in Photoshop.
Photoshop 7 has option 8 bit and 16 bit, which of them I should use?
Another thing: When I open a bmp that palmBMX extract, what format it should be save?
Somebody can help me, please?

thanks
:confused:

[the_iceman]

16bit in Photoshop

.bmp should be the format to save from PalmBMX

[Rimac]

Thank you,

But I'm still confused about it...
Are there a special color pallet for palm?
I think 8bit is the default color for photoshop in bmp24bits (8bits/3 channel).
Please, I need more explanation about this!


:( :confused:

[Festus440]

Palm doesn't use a palette for 16-bit images. A couple of bits are simply stripped off each color to convert 24-bit images to 16-bit.

(24-bit = 8-bits of red, 8-bits of green, 8-bits of blue, OR (8bits/3 channel))

(16-bit = 5-bits of red, 6-bits of green, 5 bits of blue)

It's OK to save your images as 24-bit.

Whatever program you're using to convert the images to Palm format will take care of converting the images from 24-bit to 16-bit.

[Rimac]

Hi, Festus

You are great!!!
I'm your fan and I like to use yours programs.
Congratulations for your work.

Let's go to see if I understood:
then, I must choose the option 8bit and not 16bit in photoshop
to make a bmp of 24bit, right?

Thank you too much.

:D

[Festus440]

Thanks Rimac :)

You want to use RGB Color, and 8-bits per channel.

F440

[the_iceman]

when I create themes... I use 16mil colors ...... and save it as that.... Festus' programs convert them just fine.

Hope that helps