How to change the image to 8 bit grayscale or 1 bit b/w?

[AlanHong]

Hi,

I am trying to change the color image into either 8 bit grayscale or 1 bit black and white one and save toa new file. But seems the Paint.Net always keep 24 bit true color image.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Alan

[spike 121]

well you can change the photo it self to greysclae or black and white, but as far as i now you cant save it in those forms, why would you want to anyway?

[Bob]

Actually, as you noticed, you can't save pictures in other format than 24-bit... yet.

IIRC, there is no plan to add greyscale or b&w, but if you have some coding abilities, you may write a file format plugin to extend those limits.

[Mr Frojo]

Spike, theres several reasons why you would want to save it in lower quality. The reason why I want that feature is for texturing stuff in games.

It would be great if somebody could write a plugin for doing that.