View Single Post
  #8  
Old 11-06-2008, 05:12 AM
bahamutstevetff bahamutstevetff is offline
Chalk one up to me!
bahamutstevetff's Avatar
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: England, Wymondham, Norfolk
Posts: 4,145
bahamutstevetff will become famous soon enough
Send a message via MSN to bahamutstevetff Send a message via Yahoo to bahamutstevetff
Quote:
Originally Posted by DustyPorViva View Post
If you save it as JPEG or GIF in mostly anything, you'll probably end up screwing up your pixelart. JPEG is a compression format, it's meant to compress the image, which of course means lost data(image quality). With photos this is fine, but with pixel art that means loss of the fine pixel detail, which is bad, and also terrible artifacts where colors touch.

GIF can sometimes have color compression, and more often than not saving with GIF will screw up your colors somewhere along the line. I'd avoid it if you can.

Just stick with PNG.
im going too, just odd how i cant see PNG pictures on this laptop, there all little crosses.
__________________
if revenged is best served cold, and revenge is sweet....then basically revenge is ice cream.
Reply With Quote