Are there any downsides to saving photos as pngs?
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LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 months agoJpg for photos, png for everything else.
It’s an easy rule of thumb, it hurts that 20 years of repeating it seems to have had zero effect.
Maybe this helps: Jpg fucks up your image, and png doesn’t.
Or: jpg is lossy, png is lossless.
Or: It’s better to save photos as png than cartoons as jpg.
Seriously, I hope some of this breaks through because deep fried images are so fucking unnecessary.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 5 months ago
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Slightly larger file size, which mattered in like 2002, but it’s only a few mb, which doesn’t matter at all now.
LostXOR@fedia.io 5 months ago
I hear WebP can often offer much better compression than PNG in lossless mode so that could be an alternative.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Could be. I’m not as familiar with that format – a major strength of png is that anything can open and view it properly. It’s been a standard for decades, so it has universal compatibility.