65K Wallpapers, Appropriate Program?

Originally Posted by dajedikidd

My VX4500 supports 65k colors (16 bit) wallpapers, at least according to the LG website. I've taken to making my own, however, MS Paint only lets you save bitmaps as 256 color (8 bit) or 24 bit color. It appears that other file formats will only save in the native format of the image. Most of the 'cartoonish' style wallpapers work fine for this, but there are some photos I wish to put on the phone, and they degrade pretty badly when converting down to 256 color. Anyone know of a freeware or cheap image editor that lets you save images in 16 bit format? I've tried XNview and a few others, but most seem to skip from 8 bit to 24 bit, if they give you the option at all.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by dajedikidd

Thank you for your response. My sister's 'graphic artist' boyfriend clued me into that, but its kinda overkill. I found a program called "Optimize Batch" that supposedly does outputs 16 bit images, but, even though post conversion color counts show the images to have less than 65K colors, usually just a few thousand, Windows properties shows it as a 32 bit image instead of 16 bit. I tried uploading one of these images to the phone anyways, and it didn't work.

I have discovered that XNview's conversion to 256 color works much better than MS Paint, and you can get a decent photo from it.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by dajedikidd

"Based on what I've seen with my 8910(which is built along much the same lines as a VX 4500),a 16 bit screen can process a 24 bit picture with little to no degradation from the loss of 8 bits. So there's no real need to convert to 16 bit in the first place."

Well, except for the fact that, at least in the 4500, uploading a 24bit wallpaper creates a memory problem where it "leaks" the extra color information that it cannot display to the phones memory and once the memory fills up, the phone shuts off. Usually just scrolling through the wallpapers once or twice will be enough to overload the phone's memory.

Originally Posted by dajedikidd

Tried Bitshow last night, saved as 16bit, it reduced the colors, but at least according to Windows, it was a 32bit image. They upload and display as wallpapers, but it wouldn't come up on the caller id.