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minus-squareB0rax@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoWe can ask the same the other way around: why do you want to use jpg if it results in a bigger size and worse quality than png?
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoBut that’s patently untrue: take this 10 MB example TIFF file as an example. PNG Compression, max compress (=quality 9): convert file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff -quality 9 test.png JPG Encoding, 99% quality (=quality 99): convert file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff -quality 99 test.jpg Final file size comparison: 9.7M Sep 5 13:21 file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff 1.7M Sep 5 13:22 test.jpg 2.5M Sep 5 13:22 test.png PNG is significantly larger, and difference in quality between them is negligible
minus-squareB0rax@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoDude. Did you even read what I wrote? PNG is bad for photos. Your example is a photo. Go ahead and try the same with a screenshot with text and menus showing.
minus-squarems.lane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agopng - jpg 156K Sep 5 23:06 Screenshot_20240905_230459.jpg 137K Sep 5 23:05 Screenshot_20240905_230459.png jpg with 80% compression, via krita. As B0rax said, for screenshots, png is better - it can represent line graphics and text more efficiently.
We can ask the same the other way around: why do you want to use jpg if it results in a bigger size and worse quality than png?
But that’s patently untrue: take this 10 MB example TIFF file as an example.
PNG Compression, max compress (=quality 9):
JPG Encoding, 99% quality (=quality 99):
Final file size comparison:
PNG is significantly larger, and difference in quality between them is negligible
Dude. Did you even read what I wrote? PNG is bad for photos. Your example is a photo. Go ahead and try the same with a screenshot with text and menus showing.
png - jpg
jpg with 80% compression, via krita.
As B0rax said, for screenshots, png is better - it can represent line graphics and text more efficiently.