8-BIT Pictures

 8-bit colour graphics is a method of storing image information in a computer's memory or in an image file, such that each pixel is represented by one 8-bit byte. The maximum number of colours that can be displayed at any one time is 256. There are two forms of 8-bit colour graphics. The most common uses a separate palette of 256 colours, where each of the 256 entries in the palette map to given red, green, and blue values.