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Originally Posted by DaleDe
You do not lose 16 bits of color resolution in converting to Gif. What you lose is a limit to the maximum number of colors that can appear in the image which is limited to 256 different colors. The colors themselves are defined in a palette that is 12 bits I believe so it supports 4096 different colors.
Dale
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Actually the color palette is 24 bits, equating to approximately 16 million colors. (The color map consist of up-to 256 sets of 24 bit colors - 8 each of RGB.) But as you stated you can only use 256 of them. This is perfectly adequate for cartoons and simple drawings but not for complex images such as a person's face or a rose arrangement. However that being said, your color resolution is 8 bits or 256 colors. And yes it is different from spacial resolution and is usually not stated as resolution. That's just the way I think of it.