1. In a processing device associated with a display device that has a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a plurality of separately controllable pixel sub-components, a method of dropout control adapted to compensate for thin image features when rendering the image, comprising the acts of: receiving a bitmap having a plurality of samples representing an image; identifying a set of samples for a row of samples, wherein the set of samples comprise a group of one or more adjacent samples that fall within an outline of the image; determining whether the set of samples comprises a minimum number of samples; and selectively adding samples to the set of samples such that the set of samples comprises the minimum number of samples.