What I've always heard is that jpegs are better for photos and gifs are better for simple graphics. Pngs are way to big to justify using unless you need opacity and have a complex image.
You don't have to make the image as large as the screen size you want. Save a 200 x 200 image. Set it as your background in you code and it'll show up as you background with no image loss. If you need the code to add it let me know.
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My personal experience indicates that I can get the most compression and smallest file size with the highest quality using jpg no matter what the image is.
Maybe I don't know how to tweak the gif settings but that is my take using PS 6.0.
In the past when I used a MS graphics program gif was better for really simple stuff but jpg was still best for photos.
My personal experience indicates that I can get the most compression and smallest file size with the highest quality using jpg no matter what the image is.
Maybe I don't know how to tweak the gif settings but that is my take using PS 6.0.
In the past when I used a MS graphics program gif was better for really simple stuff but jpg was still best for photos.
As always, you mileage may vary.
not sure how you were making your gifs then but for line-art, logos, clipart, buttons, etc - all things with a limited palette then gif will always be smaller than jpeg at the same visual quality. using jpeg in areas of contiguous colour (i.e.some black text on a yellow background for a button) will result in compression artifacts i.e blotches or dirty chunks in those solid areas. gifs work by combining series of pixels of the same colour and writing it in a kind of shorthand (like 1x9 red pixels, 3 x blue pixels) whereas jpegs work with an algorithm to selectively throw away information - which is hardly noticeable in photographic images.
I personally use JPG for most things ( big things anyway )
and PNG for smaller objects.
Jpg - smaller filesize and good quality. Good for backgrounds etc.
Png - Bigger file but better quality ( i think? ) but i really try to limit it to small objects ( icons mainly )
i prefer using jpg in terms of image look and its size
look. it's simple. it depends on what type of image it is. if it's a line art logo then you might prefer to use jpeg but you should use gif or png-8. if it's photographic then use jpeg. if it has too many colours to reproduce faithfully as gif/png-8 (maybe complex gradient(s) ) then it's a jpeg.
if the OP wants a definitive answer as to what to use for their image then post a link to it and we'll tell you.
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but for line-art, logos, clipart, buttons, etc - all things with a limited palette then gif will always be smaller than jpeg at the same visual quality. using jpeg in areas of contiguous colour (i.e.some black text on a yellow background for a button) will result in compression artifacts i.e blotches or dirty chunks in those solid areas. gifs work by combining series of pixels of the same colour and writing it in a kind of shorthand (like 1x9 red pixels, 3 x blue pixels) whereas jpegs work with an algorithm to selectively throw away information - which is hardly noticeable in photographic images.
