yeah... I can certainly understand that for Abbey you might want the meters to be more subtle....
hummm here's a 'trick' I sometimes use in PS... take the png
and make another layer for just those strips [the blue] and make that
a white or gradient of light gray to white...
then set that to some degree of transparency so that it cut the color down
...
this can be done a for a few layers of that white... and may get you to the degree of 'faded' meters you like...
of course there really is nothing wrong with gray meters as they are..
I just like to see the meters in a very pronounced way, but that is just me.
Anyway ...good on pngauntlet settings.... and again, it is really curious that I can just keep running the whole folder a few times until the report at the bottom shows there has been zero amount of compression... then I know it is as small as it can get...