Thread: Best practice to add an image
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Old 01-13-2019, 02:01 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Use the appropriate format for the image. Generally, photos are best in JPEG, diagrams in PNG.

If you're just aiming at E-Ink screens, converting colour images into high contrast greyscale can also help. (By choosing the colour->greyscale conversion carefully you can obtain a better result than relying on the default conversion in the ebook reader.)
I completely agree, but I have been surprised how good a job kindles do at rendering color images. Enough so that I prefer that images be left in color, but if a publisher actually optimizes the conversion to greyscale, I think that is great.

However I really wish publishers hadn't been producing such needlessly crap maps and drawings all these years. I am glad to see that a few books are starting to have decent images (probably because the original artwork was computer generated rather than scanned). It is very discouraging to see that many of the computer generated images have terrible JPEG artifacts.
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