RaveN Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Ya, you guys know what I'm gunna pick, but what is your file preference? I am thinking about going to gif soon.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Mark me down for: "It depends on the application." Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaveN Posted August 24, 2006 Author Share Posted August 24, 2006 Kinda bit off topic, but ... edited by Rick: Yes, that is off topic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 You're right, that is off topic. Do a web search. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illnab1024 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 PDN for Paint.NET, JPEG and GIF for web applications (I will talk about how I choose later...), PNG for personal storage, and TIFF for Games. JPEG and GIF: How I choose! JPEG is for smooth, several colored images that have smooth gradations. JPEG has great compression for these smooth images, whereas GIF shows the dithering too much. GIF is for sharp images with few colors; it can be used for perfect compression in some images; as for ones with a little more than can be compressed, it will dither out nicely. I say TIFF is used for games because many games use it as a texture format. This is due to its nice compression of alpha, while it is still easy to read fairly fast. Quote ~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaveN Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 Rick, I did a search, and I couldnt get some of the wierd ones I was getting. In a program called xfire, I was getting arabic letters with ALT 1666 Sorry for bringing it off topic. Back on - I haven't used TIFF that much.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Rick, I did a search, and I couldnt get some of the wierd ones I was getting.In a program called xfire, I was getting arabic letters with ALT 1666 Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map (if you have it installed) Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaveN Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 Your a hero. WOAH There is a lot of arabic haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illnab1024 Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Arabic is a combining character language. And if you don't have support for combining characters, you must supply every possible combination. It's like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. support. Back on topic: PNG does not work for web applications with large images! Quote ~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaveN Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 If you have a lot of web space like I do PNG works just fine. As well it depends on the content of the image with what file type to use. I got to say this in graphic design class.. I use Paint.NET, and I am proud to be able to make the same quality images you can! Yay for Me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 If you use PNG images in your web pages, users will become bored waiting for your web pages to load. For web sites, I think it is best to use a combination of GIF and JPG images (depending on the image). Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 PNG generally eat GIF and is available in more than 256 colors Quote No. Way. I've just seen Bob. And... *poof!*—just like that—he disappears into the mist again. ~Helio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t2suggas Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 I havn't a clue what the differences are. I always save as 'Jpeg' dunno why. So that was my choice. * off to google now the differences of file formats. :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 PNG generally eat GIF and is available in more than 256 colors Yeah, but they don't really animate as well.... Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Man Dan Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Yeah, but animated GIFs are usually overused on websites, and get annoying quickly. :wink: I'm all about PNG, but since IE 6 can't handle 'em properly without much scripting help, and IE 7 won't work on Windows versions older than XP, I'll have to support IE 6 as long as users still use Win 2000. JPG are great for large, complex images like photos. Using PNGs for photos is foolish, as with too many colors, they get huge. But for things like lineart, simple cell-shaded style images, or other such images with only a few colors in them, large images pixel-wise can still end up being smaller as PNG than JPG. For instance, there's a logo I'm designing for someone. It's a cartoon style thing with limited colors. A 2480px X 3508px PNG is 653KB, where the same dimension JPG is 1.02MB. Quote I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance; I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast. ~ Becoming the Archetype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaveN Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 I hate how IE doesnt support transparency.... So silly. Haha, my sites theme is all jpeg, I tried something different Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Yeah, but they don't really animate as well.... There is MNG. But don't say it too loud... Quote No. Way. I've just seen Bob. And... *poof!*—just like that—he disappears into the mist again. ~Helio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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