Color-depth smaller in GS?

MarcoColMarcoCol Member, PRO Posts: 279
in Working with GS (Mac)
I have a lot of artworks in GS, which have color gradients. In the viewer or ps, the gardients are looking good. But when I put them into GS, The gardients look like, they have much less colors. All artworks are png.
Is there a trick to get them intomGS with the same quality than the originals?

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  • natzuurnatzuur Member Posts: 304
    I've been noticing this as well with gradients. But only the past few releases. I know pngs become uncompressed once they hit the device, but all settings I've tried so far make no difference. @CodeWizard any insight ?
  • MarcoColMarcoCol Member, PRO Posts: 279
    My thought was, that it was only in the past few releases, too. But I didn't know since when.
    It looks a bit confusing. I use almost the same loading picture, one in the game and one added in the GS-Publishing tool. The one added in the Publishing tool for startup looks very good and without less colors. Then the game switches to the one in the game with the wrong gardient...
  • mounted88mounted88 Member Posts: 1,113
    Have you done a ad hoc and see how they look on a device? The previewer is just that a preview. Do a ad hoc and see if they look different than your originals.
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  • natzuurnatzuur Member Posts: 304
    Yes, I'm not talking about the preview or the viewer. This is on the device.
  • DanielDoeDanielDoe Member Posts: 307
    You need at least one transparent pixel on gradient png, to get full color depth.
  • mounted88mounted88 Member Posts: 1,113
    @natzuur sorry I was actually talking to @marcocol since he was the one asking the question.
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  • BoomshackBarryBoomshackBarry Member Posts: 712
    edited May 2013
    Yeah by default Gamesalad imports Pngs as 8bit Pngs which have a limited colour range, whereas introducing transparency or semi-transparency, even just in one pixel, will force GS to import the image as a 24bit Png with all the required colour depth.
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  • MarcoColMarcoCol Member, PRO Posts: 279
    Yes. I am trying it on the device, not in the viewer.

    Ok, I'll try this with one px of transparency.
  • natzuurnatzuur Member Posts: 304
    Well @mounted88 I'm experiencing the same thing so I thought i'd chime in... always better to have multiple accounts of an issue. I'll try the transparency. Thnx boom and daniel
  • mounted88mounted88 Member Posts: 1,113
    @natzuur I understand that and wasn't trying to be rude, honestly I didn't see your first post.
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  • MarcoColMarcoCol Member, PRO Posts: 279
    Made at least one px transparent will use the png with 24 bit. It's strange and a bit funny, but it works!
  • BoomshackBarryBoomshackBarry Member Posts: 712
    It is odd, it's not a design feature of GS as such, more an oversight I would think. I'm sure eventually they'll have an option for colour depth when importing.
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  • MarcoColMarcoCol Member, PRO Posts: 279
    Is there no other way?
    In my point program I can set transparency only with 256 colors!? (Paint Shop Pro XII)?!
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