GIF or JPEG?

[djvaly]

pros and cons?

it depends on what kind of graphic you want to make. for regular pictures and graphics that have long stretches of the same color, JPEG is not the format to use. use GIF format for that, it has 256 colors.

for high quality pics, like scanning multicolor graphics use JPEG format which is a 24-bit 16.7 million colors. if only concerned with file size, use JPEG since it's compressed much better than a GIF file.

anybody else want to chime in?

[B34M3R]

Honestly I see little to no gain in using gifs unless you are doing animations or icons. jpegs are superior in every other way, even simple pictures. Worse case, they indistinguishable.

I'm curious, when you say a "regular picture" would be better as a gif, what do you mean?

[djvaly]

Honestly I see little to no gain in using gifs unless you are doing animations or icons. jpegs are superior in every other way, even simple pictures. Worse case, they indistinguishable.

I'm curious, when you say a "regular picture" would be better as a gif, what do you mean?

reg pic meaning like straight lines, geometric figures pic, icons and buttons for web purpose... I usually do them in GIF. not so regular pics as photos and intense colored and high res pics I do them in JPEG.

[Spaz]

i don't think Jpeg can support annimation... where as a gif can...

[SiggyZ]

For the web, nothing larger then 72 or 75 dpi.

[B34M3R]

Well then yes. I'd say we are all in agreement...

[86 IROC-Z]

When I send people pictures I change to format to .TGA, just to piss them off.

[Smkn_TA]

Neither, PNG for the win.

[DanWS6]

Neither, PNG for the win.

I concur.

[djvaly]

png format is supported by most browsers true, but it cannot be animated like a gif format. but mng format which is an extension of png does do animation.
png however supports transparency. good choice on png as well.

[ArcticZ06]

I vote for PNG. I wish I would have known it could preserve tranparencies years ago. Just figured it out this year!