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Old 16-03-2004, 13:52   #5
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Cool Re: jpg or gif

on a low colour image a gif file is a lot smaller than a jpeg image. If you look around this website, you'll see that nearly all images are .gif and low colour. It saves a lot of bandwidth.. Just try saving one of the gifs from here (for example the post reply button at bottom left) in jpg format at the same size and have a look at the difference. As well as the file size the jpg image will probably not look as sharp because of the compression that is used.

Hmmmm... I've decided to do the comparison for you!

1st one is gif and is 834 bytes, 2nd one is jpg and is slightly larger and far worse looking at 924 bytes.

I highly recommend Adobe Photoshop 7 or greater for doing images for the web. There is an option to save for the web and you can compare how it looks before and after in different styles, gif (using different amounts of colours), jpg (high,medium,low) etc.etc.. It also tells you the exact file size before and after as well.
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