Bar scene corrections

[Dr D]

Seems like some people are seeing different things here?

I don't see the .jpg compression either, it's a clean .png.

[r1k]

dithering is more of a way to blend between 2 colors, and should be used sparingly.   The only time you really use it to create flat areas of a new color are when you want to keep color count very low, and are using a preset palette.  In that case you still have to be careful that it doesnt create too much noise.

In your case you can just replace all your dithered areas with different, but almost identical colors from your palette.  In this picture the top row of colors are the ones you dithered, and the bottom are not dithered


also, due to the fact that you have a bright, light background, and dull dark foreground, the foreground essentially just reads as a silloughette.

[tim]

Oh I'm very sorry for the off-topic discussion, but I think it's interesting.
I am currently in Hong Kong and I basically this is what I see.

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Ignore the smoothing due to the browser of course.
Very strange, as I don't have these issues with any of the other topics.

I don't know why, maybe postimage.org compresses the images before
sending them to me in Asia to reduce their peering costs ?

R1K's edit displays perfectly here.
End of discussion, sorry for the misunderstanding.

[PypeBros]

Oh I'm very sorry for the off-topic discussion, but I think it's interesting.
I am currently in Hong Kong and I basically this is what I see.

I don't know why, maybe postimage.org compresses the images before
sending them to me in Asia to reduce their peering costs ?

That would be extremely bad service from them, but on the other hand, they wouldn't be the first to offer a JPEG hosting service disguised as a image hosting service...

[Crow]

That would be extremely bad service from them, but on the other hand, they wouldn't be the first to offer a JPEG hosting service disguised as a image hosting service...

I've edited the thread on image hosting, removed hosting services which are no more, added imgur and also added a note about postimage.org. If anybody else has any suggestions for the thread, send me a PM.

[Volter9]

Crow, if it's prohibit to post images on other hosting... then sorry. I didn't knew. Then how I can upload the png pictures?

[Volter9]

Thank you. What do you mean "EGA restriction"?

I meant the EGA palette. Not simply 16 colours, but *those* 16 colours.

I'm going to use something like "WebSafe colors", pallette from 1952 color. (GIMP Pallette)

Aha. I note that those are all fully saturated colours (except when drifting white), while backgrounds rendered with de-saturated, medium colours usually work best.

P.S.: This one better than was?

Yup. You're still using a lot of ditherings, and the reason for doing so evades my understanding...

PypeBros, thank you for reply. If you have bigger color palette? Something like 32 color palette, or 64?

[Crow]

Crow, if it's prohibit to post images on other hosting... then sorry. I didn't knew. Then how I can upload the png pictures?

It is not, don't worry. If postimage.org does, however, sometimes show JPGs (and it seems it does), it's really a bad idea to use it for anything related to pixel art.

[Volter9]

Then how I can upload Images? May be you advice me a service or photo hosting with PNG support?

P.S.: If you are coding, which language you use to code?
P.S.S.: I'm coding Objective-C with Cocos2D-iphone ^_^

[Crow]

Then how I can upload Images? May be you advice me a service or photo hosting with PNG support?

P.S.: If you are coding, which language you use to code?
P.S.S.: I'm coding Objective-C with Cocos2D-iphone ^_^

I personally like imgur.
What language I use depends on what I want to achieve. JavaScript, PHP, Python, Lua, C++; whatever works/is required. Enough with the off topic stuff though. Carry on, please.