Artists have issues

[Richard K Niner]

*takes another look*<br>Y'know, I think it is. How about that?

[Bocaj Claw]

Its usually GIF right?

[IceDragon]

Jpeg, I would suspect.

[Richard K Niner]

The B&W comics are GIFs, yes. The colour ones used to be JPEGs, though.

[Bocaj Claw]

Probably because GIFs cause color loss during saving.

[Richard K Niner]

Only if you use more than 256 of them

[Rooster]

I'm no techie, but aren't gifs smaller in file size?

[IceDragon]

<!--QuoteBegin-Rooster+Jul 6 2005, 08:28 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Rooster @ Jul 6 2005, 08:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I'm no techie, but aren't gifs smaller in file size? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> They can be smaller in file size, but if the image has more than 256 colors, it will not show all hte colors and the quality will go down a whole lot. <br><br>Also, gifs are usually used when there is a lot of one color in a certain space. A wide variety of colors, or a gradul change in colors is not handeled well by the gif compressors. Jpegs are used the most for showing photos on the net, and for images with many colors and gradual changes of color.

[Dr. Doog]

well, PNGs can be compressed as much as possible and not lose any quality. that's why I always use them.

[IceDragon]

<!--QuoteBegin-DoppledangeR DooG+Jul 7 2005, 01:43 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (DoppledangeR DooG @ Jul 7 2005, 01:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> well, PNGs can be compressed as much as possible and not lose any quality. that's why I always use them. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> The problem that PNGs used to have was that up until a few years ago, not every browser supported PNGs.

[Arloest]

Plus the file sizes of them are huge.

[Gizensha]

<!--QuoteBegin-Arloest+Jul 8 2005, 03:30 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Arloest @ Jul 8 2005, 03:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Plus the file sizes of them are huge. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> But they're smaller than a Bitmap, at least. The trouble with them is that not every browser at the moment fully supports PNG transparancy, I think.

[Arloest]

Not many sites at all even LET you upload .bmps.

[Bocaj Claw]

Because compared to the other types of picture files the bitmap is a colossus.

[IceDragon]

If DC Simpson did his comics as bitmaps, a normal weekday stripmight be over 100kb. The Special Sunday ones would be over 1mb.