I don't have a specific atricle on grayscale palettes but the one on
modifying a colour palette for transparency shows the technique. To create
the palette is fairly simple just providing RGB values all the same for each
of the colours eg:
0,0,0 = black
255,255,255=white
128,128,128-50% gray etc.
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There is no simple way to transform the two formats. If you don't need to
save the grayscale image you can simply swap the pixels or use a
ColorMatrix when drawing it a Graphics object.
[How to convert a colour image to grayscale]
http://www.bobpowell.net/grayscale.htm
If you need to save a bitmap file as 8bpp indexed, then you need to do a
bit of manual labour by creating a new bitmap, create a grayscale palette
and transform the pixels from the 24bpp bitmap to an index in the 8pp
bitmap.
I believe internet has an example on how to do this as well. However, I
could not locate it at the moment.
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:39:27 +0200, tlemcenvisit via .NET 247
Post by tlemcenvisit via .NET 247Hello
I'd like to change the format of a Bitmap from Format24bppRgb to
Format8bppIndexed (GrayScale)
Please, help me
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