The Wireless Bitmap
format supports only two colors, and making images look good can be tricky. However, your
favourite image editor might have a function for decreasing the number of colors, and it
might even have a method of doing this called Floyd-Steinberg. One such program is Jasc Paint Shop Pro. Paint Shop
Pro is inexpensive compared to others, and there's even a WBMP plugin available which
allows you to save WBMPs directly. You can download a 30-day evaluation copy of Paint Shop
Pro at the link above.
Here's some examples on the quality of the Floyd-Steinberg method.
If you have access to a server side scripting language such as PHP, the same deck can be written much
simpler like this: |