On 18/12/07, Polyhead, discombobulated, unleashed: >Hardly, jpeg is lossy compression. It grabs a square of pixels and >averages them, you lose both dynamic range and resolution with jpeg. >PNG is lossless and opensource. The other problem with jpeg is that >because of the way it handles compression, it chokes on film grain. >There isn't a way to feed a jpeg encoder a image with allot of film >grain and have it spit out a reasonable result. People use it because >they just don't know any better.
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