Strange that you mention GIF but don't call it evil. Reducing a general image to GIF format is usually far more lossy than compressing it as JPEG, due to GIF only having at most 256 colours. Furthermore, GIF is evil due to its licensing. The announcement of Unisys to start charging for the production of GIF is what caused PNG to be created. PNG is a replacement for GIF - not for JPEG.

JPEG itself isn't evil. The lossy compression is usually not something you notice, as long as you stick to the domain JPEG was invented for: pictures. GIF and PNG shine where JPEG doesn't: images with a low number of colours, images with sharp boundaries between very different colours, etc. So, typically things as drawings, icons, plots, etc.

Abigail

In reply to Re: more perl desktop images by Abigail-II
in thread more perl desktop images by silent11

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