Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th May 2006 19:18 UTC, submitted by JCooper
If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo. The software maker detailed the new image format Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here. Windows Media Photo will be supported in Windows Vista and also be made available for Windows XP, Bill Crow, program manager for Windows Media Photo said in a presentation.
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Member since:2005-07-07
Based on photographs
Ok. Tested and you're right. As I said I do a lot of drawings, no photographs.
Yes, size of JPEG on photo is more acceptable while not losing quality, compltely different results on drawings. But just as you said, it won't stop me to ignore it in the future as I did it in the past. PNG is still the that rocks mothers ass.
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2006-01-11
Based on photographs. Drawings are certainly going to compress better using PNG, especially PNG-8, because JPEG optimizes on gradients. PNG-8 compresses even better than GIF in a lot of cases. JPEG at its highest quality setting compresses to roughly 60 percent (of the file size) of non-interlaced PNG-24.
Personally, I prefer using PNG for everything, mainly because I am familiar with the algorithms used and the zlib codebase, but also because I like using the alpha channel from time to time and I don't like visual artifacts.