JoeJ said:
GIF's are a non-lossy format, so, well, you're wrong. :p It's a format that's best used for images with lots of repeated parts since those compress well with the LZW compression scheme. PNG is a similar format, but can do 24 bit color, as opposed to GIF's 8 bit color. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of? If you had said JPEG, well, then we could have agreed with you since JPEG is a lossy format (like MP3) and achieves compression by throwing away data and approximating the output. EDIT: Whoops, darconi beat me to it... |
Well with my experience in Photoshop, the GIF files can only do 256 colors, total crap, while with JPEG you can set the quality by choosing what kind of file size you are looking for, and when set to max, there's hardly any difference between that and the original 24bit bmp file.
But I guess thats just Photoshop.
