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# what's the point of png?
I get gifs and jpegs, and swap between the two when I need to, but any png I make is gargantic no matter what type o image I'm makin..
([Ubuntu] Gimpmash, Mon 16 Feb 2004, 19:06, archived)
# Well these particular
PNGs happened to be smaller than the corresponding GIFs.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 16 Feb 2004, 19:07, archived)
# png is best suited to vectors
they go all huge when you add photos to them
(I helped save b3ta! lazygamer VS tittybiscuits, Mon 16 Feb 2004, 19:07, archived)
# GIF format
really didn't like the gradient at the top of the 2nd image. PNG lapped it up.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 16 Feb 2004, 19:10, archived)
# gif only has 256 colours
png's got 16.7 million of em
(I helped save b3ta! lazygamer VS tittybiscuits, Mon 16 Feb 2004, 19:11, archived)
# Greedy fucker.
(I helped save b3ta! sp3ccylad carries on breathing all the way up to, say, Mon 16 Feb 2004, 19:12, archived)
# I know
but it can do 256-colour palette mode as well. It seemed to also be slightly smaller for the first image.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 16 Feb 2004, 19:14, archived)
# You may well ask.
Ah. You did.
(I helped save b3ta! sp3ccylad carries on breathing all the way up to, say, Mon 16 Feb 2004, 19:08, archived)