FJ-Warez said:
darconi said:
FJ-Warez said:
JoeJ said:
Username2324 said:
P.S. GIF's look horrible
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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... |
Errrr, 24 bits > 8 bits, thats compresion, 8 bits gif takes 1/3 of the space (removing colors) of a normal 24 bits image... |
...uh, I think you're a little confused on how compression works... |
Are you sure??, a PNG has 8 bits per channel, 3 channels, RGB + Alpha, a gif only has 8 bits, and sometimes 1 bit for alpha + 7 for colors... 256 colors vs 16 millons??? Tell why am I wrong, please... |
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you said. You're correct regarding the colors. The point that I was getting at is that gifs are not always 1/3 of the space as a png. The end size results are because of how compression algorithms work. A png file of the same picture can be much less than 3x the size of a converted gif version.
