Bitmap Compressor?

[Darkangel]

The 24bit-Bitmaps I have in my LF2 files are really big. Are there any bitmap compressors that you could suggest I could use. Otherwise, are there any way I could reduce the size of bitmaps without causing them to lose quality?

[Lauli]

You can make it a 8-Bit bitmap and optimize the colour-pallette (?)
I always do that to make smaller files.
Not sure which other software can do this, but I'm always using Corel-Photo-Paint. Maybe Photoshop or Gimp has the same feature.

[Silverthorn]

In Photoshop, you go Image > Mode > Indexed Color...
But yeah, like Lauli said, convert it from 24- to 8-bit. It reduces the filesize dramatically

[Wiro]

i guess almost every image-manipulation program can index the bmps, even ms paint (like save as 8-bit bitmap)

[Lauli]

That's right, paint however doesn't optimize the colour palette (I'm not sure about Windows 7, though)
So there might be some unwanted colour changes, if you save as 8-Bit in Paint.

[The Lost Global Mod]

^tested it for ya. No it does not.
So basically paint is not really useful in this matter.

[Taniaetc]

Other way:
I remember compressing the whole IF folder. It's like this.
Right-click, go to properties, general, then advanced.

Make sure you tick the "compress contents to save disk space".
If there's any box appearing just click ok and that's it.
There's no problems with it. Still 24-bit, no editing errors. It's a great way of compressing, but I'm not sure if there's a bug...