[h*sync]

So here's the deal, we have to do a powerpoint for our french class. Naturally, after seeing the first few presentations, my artistic senses kicked in and I knew I had to do better.

Anyways I made some custom graphics (to the point where every slide is just a background and text, all illustrations are built onto the background)

I knew that it had to be run off the teacher's laptop, which had a 256 color display, so I took care to save all my backgrounds in indexed color bitmaps.

Anyways, I did a dry run by setting my desktop color to 256 and running the presentation. I was highly dissapointed when I still saw plenty of color errors.

What's going on here, am I confused about how 256 color display works? Can my presentation be salvaged somehow?

[bld]

256 color displays are a pre-set 256 colors, it only will display those 256 colors. Making images with 256 colors may contain colors outside the 256 that your teachers laptop can display. Index palletes choose the best 256 colors to use, its an adaptive pallete used to cut down on image size, usefull for game design, as it cuts down on hardware requirements to not have to decide which colors of a few billion it needs.

Index color images have 256 colors, but the change from image to image.

If you want it to work on a 256 color display, set the pallete to 256 color windows or mac.

Hope i didn't lose you.