G'day Liland,

If you told your scanner to just read black and white ... instead of "256 colours" or "greyscale" ... the GIF would be less than half as big ... and more than twice as fast ... and have no purplish blotches. You use GIF for simple colour schemes, greyscale or black & white. JPG is for full colour photographs (and may have lots of options in the level of compression ... but that's down the track.

Reagrds,

Bob Bolton