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8-bit color
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8-bit color
Using one byte per pixel in a color image. Up to 256 colors can be represented in the color palette. Various graphics formats are limited to 256 colors; for example, GIF images, which are widely used on the Web, are 8-bit color. See bit depth and bit specifications.


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GIF images, since they are limited to 256 colors per image, are better at displaying images with large solid blocks of color and images with very small physical dimensions.
In the majority of the cases, except for photographs, one cannot see the difference between a 256 colors image and a 24 bits image because in fact the 256 dominant colors of an image are retained by the graphic editor at the time of the saving.
The Food Safety Planner comes on a CD-ROM and has the following minimum hardware requirements: Pentium 100 MHz processor, 32 MB of RAM, 20 MB of hard disk space, and a VGA-compatible monitor running 640 x 480 x 256 colors.
 
 
 
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