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Originally Posted by blutuu
Quick question. What would be the best image format to use in terms of quality? I have high quality png files, but they're really big. I reduced them to jpg files, but I feel that the quality has dipped a little bit. Basically, I want something that isn't too big and retains most of its quality.
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I have found that using more than 10% -15% compression on jpegs will usually lead to artifacts and bleeding and "pixel-spitting". Of course, that means a larger file-size.
Often a
256-color png can look better than a heavily-compressed 16million color jpeg.
You would have to test and see. But 256-color pngs don't support gradients very well, so you might see banding.
If your graphics editor supports choosing the color-count reduction method, I would recommend testing 256 colors (do NOT use "web-safe" pallet, it is UGLY, even if it is smaller.). You might find a happy solution.
Good luck!