[SDL] Ugly images under 16bit X11

[sirk]

Christophe Cavalaria <chris.cavalaria <at> free.fr> writes:


> 
> Now, the question is, are your original images you are blitting/displaying
> 16bit or 24bit? If the later, them you should reduce them to 16bit with a
> program that knows about dithtering ( more or less any image manipulation
> tool that can do 16bit images ) If the former, then there is no solution.
> 
> Reducing them to 8bit is a bad idea because the colors choosen for the image
> are in 24bit and still won't map perfectly on the color space of a 16bit
> mode.
> 

Hmm, thanks.  Your answer tracks to my guess about what's going on but I'm not
sure what I can do about it.  All the original images are 24bpp but none of my
image programs (Photoshop, Photopaint) will save an image at 16bpp, I can either
have 24 or 8.  What image format supports a native 16bpp image?  Would the image
program have to understand a particular 16 bit color space?

thanks again.