Or use png which has the same advantages for screen shots: it creates small lossless files as well. *And* has transparency possibility.
Cheers, Ton On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 9:46:19 AM UTC+1, PMario wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 2:17:57 PM UTC+1, steve wrote: >> >> I am using the high resolution tiff format for now because that is what >> is generated by the Mac OS "grab" utility. >> In practice I would switch to another smaller image format. >> > > If you use it for sceen shots, tiff isn't needed at all. IMO gif is still > the best image format for screenshots, if you don't need transparency. > Since sceen shots have huge portions of the same pixels, gif creates small > *lossless* files > > For sceenshots jpg is crap since it always produces rendering artefacts at > text and can't produce lossless images, like tiff or gif. > > gif is not good for "real world" images ... there jpg has its strength. > > just my 2cents > mario > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
