Re: [Gimp-user] PNG vs JPG

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Why JPG is so lightweight as compared to PNG ? (even when image doe > snot have any transparency) Because JPEG has been designed to be this way. It does achieve higher compression at the cost of quality loss. The features of both file formats are explained i

[Gimp-user] PNG vs JPG

2007-08-22 Thread arnuld
i have created some wallpapers for GNU and want to publish them on my blog. all are under Free Art License. Primarily, i use GIMP and save images PNG format and i see my images are of size 2.5 MB. when i convert them to JPG format they get reduced to only 347 or 600 KB of size without any loss in q