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Image format guide
<span style="text-decoration:underline">Sticky if you want.</span><br><br><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:bold">Servers that support/ dont PNG transparency</span></span><br>IE- Doesnt support .png(there are exceptions, read them all <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294714"; target="_blank" class="bb-url">here</a>)<br>FireFox- Supports .png transparency<br>Opera- as far as ive read, it supports png transparency<br><span style="color:red">Want me to check your server? post here and tell me what you use!</span><br><br><br><br>As an artist,<br>i was to give you tips to saving images<br>and what format to use<br>^^<br><br><br><span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="text-decoration:underline">JPG</span></span><br>.jpg works for pictures, but not art.<br>it makes them look a little smudged.<br>see?<br><img src="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/aa-1.jpg"; alt="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/aa-1.jpg"; class="bb-image" /><br>image quality isnt great.<br>Its supposed to be a pixel drawing, but the pixels got messed up.<br>That <span style="font-style:italic">should</span> have been saved as .gif<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="text-decoration:underline">GIF</span></span><br>.gif is used to animate things together, its the easiest file type to use to animate animate.<br>.gif also can hold transparency<br>see?<br>This is <span style="text-decoration:underline">animated</span>(these are all gif's)<br><img src="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/Puppy/blueyyy.gif"; alt="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/Puppy/blueyyy.gif"; class="bb-image" /><br>this is <span style="text-decoration:underline">Transparent</span><br><img src="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/Puppy/ggg.gif"; alt="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/Puppy/ggg.gif"; class="bb-image" /><br>BUT, save the wrong things as .gif, and they will become very pixelated(in otherwords, .gif adds noise)<br><img src="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/Puppy/aaaaa.gif"; alt="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/Puppy/aaaaa.gif"; class="bb-image" /><br>notice how the ocean colors dont seen to blend, the colors got messed up because .gif was used when not needed<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="text-decoration:underline">PNG</span></span><br>Finally, the fabulous .png format!<br>png formats make the files bigger than most others, and if you want to upload avatars to most sites/banners to some sites. the files will be too large. in those cases use .gif<br>but the files are bigger because .png suffers almost(or no) color damage.<br>see what i mean?<br><img src="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/Puppy/1-1.png"; alt="http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/ah6060/Puppy/1-1.png"; class="bb-image" /><br>That piece of artworks looks the same as it did in my editing window.<br>because i didnt get the smudged .jpg look, or the pixelated .gif look.<br><br>I hope this helps!<br><span style="color:red">* these are the 3 most used formats!</span>
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