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Color Type

Design color types and what each denotes

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Ideally, any raster image in Turbine is received as TrueColorAlpha as that denotes it could be RGB with an alpha channel, but below is a list of all color types that may be received and a definition of each.

Undefined

Undefined color type.

Bilevel

A bi-level image contains only two colors: a background color and a foreground color.

Grayscale

Grayscale (shades of gray).

GrayscaleAlpha

Grayscale (shades of gray) with alpha channel.

Palette

Indexed (palette-based, ie. each pixel is an index in palette rather than color value).

PaletteAlpha

Indexed (palette-based) with alpha channel.

TrueColor

TrueColor is defined to mean 256 shades of red, green, and blue, for a total of 16,777,216 color variations.

TrueColorAlpha

TrueColor with alpha channel.

ColorSeparation

Colors separated into the three or four basic ink colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK).

ColorSeparationAlpha

ColorSeparation with alpha channel.

Optimize

Optimized color type.

PaletteBilevelAlpha

Indexed (palette-based) bilevel with alpha channel.

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