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Why .jpg specifically? Why not also .png? Both are comparable formats, and .png is much closer to truly lossless than .jpg? | Why .jpg specifically? Why not also .png? Both are comparable formats, and .png is much closer to truly lossless than .jpg? | ||
[[User:Korlus|<font color="red">'''Korlus'''</font>]] - [[User talk:Korlus|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] [[Special:contributions/Korlus|<sub>(contribs)</sub>]] 00:01, 8 April 2013 (UTC) | [[User:Korlus|<font color="red">'''Korlus'''</font>]] - [[User talk:Korlus|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] [[Special:contributions/Korlus|<sub>(contribs)</sub>]] 00:01, 8 April 2013 (UTC) | ||
| + | :The answer is very simple: We don't really want the lossless compression PNG offers, as it takes up a lot of storage space for a picture which is mainly going to be seen as a small ~100px high thumbnail. And secondly, JPG is a usually a lot better at compressing the relatively complex pictures that we're working with in this case. PNG is ideal and very good at compressing pictures with large areas of consisting one/few colours, such as vector art or pictures with simple/transparent backgrounds, not high-resolution pictures of planets. Usually, anyhow. - [[User:Space|Space]] <sup>[[User talk:Space|(talk)]]</sup> 09:24, 8 April 2013 (UTC) | ||
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Image Type?
Why .jpg specifically? Why not also .png? Both are comparable formats, and .png is much closer to truly lossless than .jpg? Korlus - (talk) (contribs) 00:01, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
- The answer is very simple: We don't really want the lossless compression PNG offers, as it takes up a lot of storage space for a picture which is mainly going to be seen as a small ~100px high thumbnail. And secondly, JPG is a usually a lot better at compressing the relatively complex pictures that we're working with in this case. PNG is ideal and very good at compressing pictures with large areas of consisting one/few colours, such as vector art or pictures with simple/transparent backgrounds, not high-resolution pictures of planets. Usually, anyhow. - Space (talk) 09:24, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
