24 Apr
2002
24 Apr
'02
16:41
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 15:16, Anon. Coward wrote:
. I really tried to like .pngs, but at least from Gimp, filesizes are 10x larger than .jpg for the same pic.
Isn't that an inherent from the two specs?; after all, jpegs are lossy. The reason that jpegs are small is that they throw out a lot of 'unimportant' detail; whereas PNGs are lossless (like GIFs); they usually take up more space, but are much more flexible as a result. Just my £0.02, anyway. Gideon.