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COLOUR PALETTE · 16 COLOURS

16 Shade Grayscale Dithering

Reduction you have to look for.

Unprocessed source photograph
Original
Photograph converted to the Grayscale 16 palette with Floyd-Steinberg dithering
Grayscale 16 · Floyd-Steinberg

Sixteen levels is enough that most photographs survive almost intact, with dithering only doing visible work in the smoothest gradients.

Use it when you want the discipline of a fixed palette without the image obviously announcing that it has been processed.

Subtle treatments and preparing images for limited greyscale displays.

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