Re: FN-FORUM: png compression

date posted 27th July 2005 15:33



>Obviously gif has it's place and it ain't photographs I had thought that pngs
>would compress quite small, but my 4k jpg (8% compression) is a 41k png when
>fully compressed. so apparantly pngs arn't much use for photos, or am I missing
>something?

JPGs are best for photos for web - very flexible/adjustable in terms of
quality/compression. GIFs work best for images with large, uninterrupted
areas of flat colour - headlines, logos and some types of photo.

Niels

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