StarMaker
When I place a graphics in a CDG I ussually do a head shot of the artist that sang the song originaly. By having a tight head shot you can get a better looking picture that if you have a full body shot.
I try to work on the picture using either Adobe photoshop or PaintShop. I have an old copy of paintShop that works great. It lets me see the picture in 16 colors under a number of conditions of brightness and contrast as well as "Nearest color", "Ordered dither" or 3 types of "error diffusion" under the reduction method. It also helps if the background of the picture itself is one solid color, rather than a landscape or colorful setting. It seems that the higher the contrast the better that the picture will look with the 16 colors. The fact is that you have to play around with it to get a satisfactory shot. There are no easy rules.
Good luck
BANDL
