THIS EFFECT

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    nairn got it spot on.
    its a photo thats been saved out as a crap quality pattered gif in 2 colours.

    you can change it from a 'pattern' to 'noise' which will give you a more random grainier pattern or you can turn the dither off and itl give you solid colour.
    its a really nice effect if used well.

    because the filesizes are so low, you can use it as a placeholder for a loader for a large image in flash, then when the large (full colour) image is loaded you can fadfe it in or reveal it.

    did this about 3 years ago
    http://www.buchananhouse.com/

    obviously the images dont pause that long on the greyscale pics these days as everyone is on faster connections lol.

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