Merlyn says: I wonder if the picture people are ever going to stop arguing...the one s that don't understand that all file formats are lossy

If my camera captures an image and saves it in tiff format. NO INFORMATION IS LOST. Non-lossy file format.

If I then choose to convert this tiff into a .png, the image will be compressed, the output file size will be reduced, but STILL NO INFORMATIO WILL BE LOST. A non-lossy, compressed file format.

If I choose to convert this program to a .jpg, the output file size will smaller than the tiff, and depending upon the options select during conversion, it may also be smaller than the .png. BUT THIS OUTPUT FILE SAVING WILL HAVE COME AT THE COST OF LOST INFORMATION. DETAIL WILL HAVE BEEN DISCARDED FROM THE ORIGINAL IMAGE. This is a lossy format.

All the images will remain the same size (width x height) as the original (unless I choose to crop the image, which has nothing to do with the output file format).

Your statements in this thread that elude to the idea that .png is a lossy format are simply false, misleading and wrong.

In reply to Re: •Re: Re: •Re: Re: •Re: GIF patent by Anonymous Monk
in thread GIF patent by didier

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