RE: Re: associated alpha

Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:56:18 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.core
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, David Kelleher wrote:
>
> I'm not the right person to comment since I haven't used colormapped
> TIFFs with alpha, but I think the lesser evil would be, by default, to
> promote the image to TrueColor, pre-multiply, and color reduce again.

Agreed.  It is most likely that a colormapped TIFF with alpha uses 
the alpha channel more like a mask than a linear channel so there may 
not be a large impact on the number of colors.

Bob
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