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FRiC
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I don't know if the screen varies between individual phones, I have a T68i and a T300 here and their screens look completely different.
Pictures on the T68i actually looks better in most cases when the 256 color palette isn't used. In theory it should look better, since you're using accurate colors, but in reality, because the T68i's screen has poor contrast it's harder to see banding while dithering can be very obvious due to the size of the pixels.
For the T300, banding is almost always obvious due to the enhanced contrast and vividness of the colors. Even worse, dithering is also obvious due to the size of the pixels and the way the different colored pixels don't blend into each other.
Anyway, what I end up doing is download multiple pictures with different color quantization techniques, and pick the best one on each phone, and keep two files for each picture that I keep, naming them T68_*.GIF and T300_*.GIF.
A somewhat related tip if you're doing pictures of faces of fair-skinned people. The difference between white color and the lightest color shade is greater than the difference between the lightest color shade and the next darker shade. So if your image (face) has a patch of white, the banding/dithering around the white color looks terrible. Try adjusting the brightness and saturation so you don't get patches of white.
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MarkOng
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Yes, that's very true. I normally bump up the saturation quite a bit (about +20 - +30) then bring down the brightness around -5. Also, bring up the contrast a little (+10 - +20 depending). Almost always good results. BTW, the contrast on my phone itself is set to -1. |
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@ Fric: so u r basically saying that on the t68i's 256 display its better 2 adjust the saturation, brightness, and contrast, than it is 2 use the color palette. i did try 2 use the color palette b4 but the pic looked better without it. what i normally do is after resizeing the pic, i sharpen the image, this seems 2 make a bit of a difference with the clarity. has anybody else tried sharpening their pics, and what were your results? | |
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Posted: 2003-04-25 08:57
