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7457 replies · 1,886,047 views · Started 21 May 2007

Pryme8 wrote:when are they gonna delete this thread...

I hope they do it right when yall think you are gonna hit a all time new high on posts.

way to make friends. keep up the good work.

Me too. Apparently I too recently gave you rep to give you more rep now (which is lame), but I would so totally have given you rep. Cuz... you know. Having little green gems under your post count is what it's all about, amirite?

Oh snap!

Yea, JPGs are baaaad. At least use max quality when you save as JPG. D:<

Or, ya know, don't use JPGs at all, ever.

*calls upon his Graphic design training*

Use Jpegs when you something to be transferred quickly.

But you should never ever ever ever use it for quality final work that does not require instant upload/download speed.

That's what PNGs are for! : D

I know jpg is great for speed and stuff, and pngs are high quality, and gifs can be animated. But what are bmps good for? And what the hell is a tiff? I never ever see any tiffs used for anything.

I think BMPs were used for high-colour images before PNGs were created, since GIFs can only have 256 colours and JPGs get distorted. But now PNGs beat BMPs in every way.

I only know what my dad says about tiff, and all he knows is that it uses "lossless compression" or something.

I think that BMP is to graphics as WAV is to audio&#8212;it's the standard uncompressed lossless "one-to-one" format, where each element is simply stored as-is. As such, you can easily see that the storage size of a 24-bit 640 x 480 pixel bitmap file is easily calculable, as it is 24 bits times 640 times 480, which equals 7,372,800 bits, or 900 KB (plus a few bytes extra for a header and whatever). Any BMP image of those dimensions and that color depth will be the same size, no matter what, as opposed to JPGs whose size for a given compression rate depends on the complexity of the image, or PNGs or GIFs whose size depends on the number of colors present, etc.

As far as I know, you're almost always going to be better off with a PNG, because you can make it so that it's always the same quality as the source bitmap, but potentially smaller in size.

So I got a username change.

Russ was taken, and I would never have thought of this one if MD hadn't called my Russell.

Edit: It appears MD is now Shazza Dani. I guess I'll call her SD now.

I'm already used to it.

Then again, it's a routine process on Pure ZC, so I sort of get something like it at least once a month.

Well, Russel makes sense, because he was Russadwan. And SD's avatar is the same, so that's not too bad. But Deviance threw me for a loop, as did Maximum...umm, crap, Dechiphers new name eludes me already.

With my nick being Deviance I use it at the other forums and mainly on irc. Just never decided to get it changed here until last night.

I also knew Deviance from Pure ZC. Maximum, um, the Decipher guy is the only one that really confused me. But I'm over it now.

This thread is now about bagels.

Guys, I ate too many bagels.

How many bagels is too many bagels?

ANY bagels is too many bagels.

;_;