[haiku] Re: New Haiku screenshot tour
- From: Dennis Catt <cattmail@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:54:50 -0400
The screenshot tour looks great. Excited to see Haiku when it hits beta :-)
On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:34 AM, Humdinger wrote:
> Hi Julius!
>
> 2012/6/15, Julius Bullinger <julius.bullinger@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> I like the subtle one better. However, the problem I see with both of
>> them is the compression artifacts with PNG-8.
>
> I guess you mean the "bar-ing" of the blue background? Read on.
>
>> Could you do a comparison
>> of JPEG and PNG-24 (or PNG-8 with different Dithering algorithms)?
>
> I don't think I'll find the time for that.
>
> I found, however, a setting in GIMP (which I use to post-process all
> images so I don't have start at square one with the window arranging
> of Haiku in a VirtualBox). It's "rasterizing" or something in the
> gradients tool. Activating (or deactivting, forgot...) it produces a
> perfect gradient. Downside: filesize.
>
> "bar-ed" readonlyprompt.png: 58kB
> "perfect" readonlyprompt.png: 317kB
>
> With more action, i.e. windows, in a screenshot the difference becomes
> smaller, but still significant.
>
> So, visual perfection or fast loading. FYI, the original images [1]
> also had this banding. Nobody noticed... :)
>
> Regards,
> Humdinger
>
> [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21023348/Slideshow/slideshow_1.html
>
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