Katchoo's Shipset Thread (aka the ungodly slow DoGa guy).

[Katchoo]

So I guess you're implying the picture of the Nu'Wam ship is too big?

I'll cut it down to a more manageable size.

[trooper]

Put the same pic in jpg format...
BMPs on a web page you mustn't put.
Never.
Ever.

[Fyron]

Jpgs lose colors and image quality. Use pngs instead.

Also, have you considered using http://www.spaceports.com instead of Angelfire? They are much much better than Angelfire.

[ March 30, 2003, 19:13: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Jpgs lose colors and image quality. Use pngs instead.

jpgs only lose color and image quality if you make them like 500x500 pixels. If they are a normal sized picture they are perfectly fine and are best for the web. PNGs are good, but they are still quite big and I would only recommend them if the jpgs look bad for that particular image or if you don't mind the size.

[trooper]

Think I've already seen that debate somewhere on the forum... I also think that .png are a bit too big to be used on the web.

[Fyron]

jpgs only lose color and image quality if you make them like 500x500 pixels.

All jpgs of every pixel size lose colors. Image size has nothing to do with color loss, except with really, really small pictures (like 20x20 pixels and smaller) because they have few colors in them to be distorted. 128x128 images lose too many colors in jpg form.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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jpgs only lose color and image quality if you make them like 500x500 pixels.

All jpgs of every pixel size lose colors. Image size has nothing to do with color loss, except with really, really small pictures (like 20x20 pixels and smaller) because they have few colors in them to be distorted. 128x128 images lose too many colors in jpg form.

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Let me rephrase what I said. The way I said it was wrong. What I meant to say was this: jpgs always lose colors and quality. But it is never enough to worry about. Never enough to make a image look absolutly horrible. Unless of course you resize the image down to 20x20 as you said, or way too big. But generally jpgs never distort bad enough to worry about putting pngs instead, (depends on what image is as well), as pngs take up about 2 to 3x as a jpg does, if not more.

For example: I just made a quick button about 100x20 in size, and put some text and a little drop shadow on it. I then saved it as both .png, as well as .jpg. The difference in quality? You couldn't tell the two apart. The difference in size? The .jpg was only 1.35k, while the .png was 35k. That big of size difference for no quality inhancement is not worth the bandwidth.