Scott Loveless wrote: >Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > >>As mentioned in this article, it is a format suitable for image data >>that you would otherwise have used GIF format to encode, not >>photographic continuous tone data which is what JPEG was designed >>for. PNG has capabilities for transparency and other features that >>are of use to Web designers. >> >> > >For what it's worth, when I set up the new PUG form, I specifically >allowed PNG images. This was really just an experiment to see if anyone >would actually post one. So far, it's all been JPG. > > > I've been using PNGS for my T shirt designs to load to cafepress when they are to go on dark shirts or have a lot of text. It's the only way to maintain the transparent background. But I also think (may be wrong) that if you save in PNG and you want to fiddle a bit with the image later it isn't as lossy as JPG. Of course I don't have any hard stats to back me up -:)
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