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| | fractalus - PNG, JPEG, and Fractals |
 | | Deciding between GIF and JPEG (before PNG hit the scene) was easy: any 24-bit color depth (16.7 million colors) photographic-style image became a JPEG, while images with less color, transparent areas, or animation were GIFs; however, PNG complicates things because it offers some features common to both formats, as well as a few unique features. |
| | If you're still not convinced that JPEG is good for photographs, consider this: if you did not know which of the three sample JPEGs was compressed the most, how long would it take you to decide? |
| | These JPEGs were produced by simply loading the 256-color GIF into a graphics program, then saving the results out as JPEGs. |
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