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First I want to say thanks to Chris for his help with importing photos, thanks!

Today I tried something related to what Chris has suggested that might help
others.

On the mac we have been using FrameGrabber 3.0 to save our 32 bit pict photos as
8 bit picts with CLUTs (color look up tables; I beleive this is the same thing
as a 'palette' that Chris has been refering to; I also beleive that there are
several programs that have this capability).  We then directly import them into
a display icon on APM. (I don't know if this is important, but I'll mention it
anyway; when we import these photos, we are doing it on screen that displays
millions of colors.)  These photos are converted by APW and display with very
good clarity (when diplayed with thousands or millions of colors).  These photos
also take up relatively small amounts of disk space (my photos are 75 to 150 K
and range in sizes from 3 x 5 cm to 3/5 of a 13 inch screen).  However, these
photos *do not* diplay very well when diplayed in 256 colors (8 bit).

We feel that this will suit our situation best because: 1. file size is
relatively small, 2. conversion to APW is no problem, 3.  the clarity is good
for seeing detail (this was a key point for our situation).

I hope this helps.

John
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John Cary                         Today I'm a dog. Yesterday I was a dog.
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