Re: tlug: Color depth in GIMP

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 05:56:06PM +0900, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:
> 
> When I create a new image in GIMP, it give me no option about color
> depth, just a choice of RGB or grayscale.  The default color depth it's
> assigning to the RGB image is 16.  I would eventually want to reduce the
> color depth to 16, but want to work at 16M colors. 

The choices are RGB, Greyscale, or *Indexed*.  Since "indexed" is greyed
out it means it's your current selection (I'm guessing you loaded an
existing image rather than creating a new one from scratch -- you've got
exactly the same "color depth" as the original image).  Hint: try "rgb".

I've no idea why your man page isn't working.  I suspect it's somehow
related to your mouse. ;-)

If you're happy with your other software, why are you forcing yourself
to use gimp (without reading the documentation)?  It's a linux users
group so it's trendy to make fun of Windows, but if you're happy with it
why not use it?

Regards,
-- 
Rex
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