On Monday 24 de February 2003 09:41, Anne Wilson wrote: > I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? > > If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a > png come out at 2.4MB? > > Anne
Because JPG is lossy compression, based on some weird smoked algorithms that have something to do with fractals and the way the human eye perceives colours... PNG being a lossless compresion, like you said, takes up more space. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like "Edit textfile.txt" (what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)
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