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drak
10-08-2002, 02:48 AM
If you use GIF you can overlay and create little animations.
but with PNG you can do Gamma corrections and have some what of a better detailed product of an image.

Choices of simple clean graphics or heavy pixelated images?

How many of you use GIF animated Flash products?
Or use a more robust product made for GIF animation?

:rolleyes:
Flogg
10-08-2002, 09:49 AM
I like to use png because of how well it keeps the quality and you can keep the file size down quite alot.
BoR|S
10-08-2002, 02:15 PM
I prefer to use GIF, I usually convert all my images to gif and very rarely to JPG, but I never use PNG, maybe coz I don't need it's features and GIF's and JPG's are enough for me.
drak
10-09-2002, 12:59 AM
I personally prefer PNG. Image degredation isn't bad at all.
Some what glad that it became a world wide normality.
Since most of my Html building started in the Unix world and creating PNG's were fairly easy to develop. I wish I kept the page I made back in 1995 to show off what I did lol. I've tried looking in the way back engines and haven't found it all.

Oh well. :rolleyes:
HZR
10-09-2002, 04:10 AM
PNG rules, especially with the alpha channels.
justice
10-09-2002, 02:24 PM
until now i used gif or jpeg!

but two day ago i read a FAQ about some grapfic files! and i will prefer png in future!

it is better than gif
bryantrv
10-25-2002, 07:23 AM
Is anyone concerned about Compuserve issues? I.E.- whether they might try to enforce the copyright issue?
Zero Angel
10-26-2002, 12:15 AM
Depends on the type of art.

GIF compresses line-art and cartoon-style files a lot better then PNG, and its more widely supported then PNG, not to mention supporting animation and transparancies.

The ONLY time I'd go with PNG is if I have an image with a large single colored area and lots of gradients. You get the best of both JPG (full color range) and GIF (good compression in like colored contiguous areas).
Zero Angel
10-26-2002, 12:17 AM
Originally posted by bryantrv
Is anyone concerned about Compuserve issues? I.E.- whether they might try to enforce the copyright issue? The moment they start attacking single users is the moment hell freezes over. IF they do decide to start suing, its going to be the larger web design firms going down first.
jonathan C
10-28-2002, 09:33 PM
PNG!!
cbkihong
10-28-2002, 09:59 PM
There are browsers that do not support PNG properly.

Netscape 4.x seems to be one. Not all PNG pics I have seen have problems, but some do.

I also prefer PNG in general.