Can gaming sites and others stop saving every image as a PNG file please?

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Really, it makes screenshots of games about 10 to 20 times bigger than if they were just saved as JPGs in the first place. I know, the JPG format seems to have fell out fashion recently, but it's so much nicer for people with slow internet connections.

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Nin3DS said:
Really, it makes screenshots of games about 10 to 20 times bigger than if they were just saved as JPGs in the first place. I know, the JPG format seems to have fell out fashion recently, but it's so much nicer for people with slow internet connections.

This was a public service announcement.
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Get a faster internet connection lololololol
 
My internet connection is fine, it's just I like my visitors here to be able to view said images quicker (and to save some disc space on the hard drive).
 
PNG is indeed better quality for low resolution images (such as sprite work). But for images of any decent size, such as normal photos, screenshots, etc., there is no noticeable difference between PNG and JPEG.
 
Yes, every time I've seen someone post a JPG, everybody starts complaining that the quality isn't good enough and to make it a PNG.
 
As a web designer, PNG is my favourite file format for raster graphics. They are small and they preserve transparency and gradients better than any other optimised format.
I only use JPG for actual photos.
 
I get where Nin's coming from though, you want to optimise a site so that it takes as little time as possible to load. JPGs aren't crap at all, they're bloody brilliant. PNG's are for transparency, GIFs are... well, if anything, GIFs are the outdated file nowadays considering PNGs do a better job, heh.

But seriously, PNG photographs is just stupid. PNG screenshots on the other hand... I'm sure they could, at the very least, optimise them a bit to keep the PNG format.
 
That's the point exactly. You should use PNG format for sprites and other such graphics, and JPG format for photos/screenshots. Anything else is a massive waste of disc space and bandwidth.
 
Basically:
BMP -- just don't even go there
JPG -- screenshots and maybe artwork
PNG -- graphics and stuff
GIF -- if you're really desperate and don't mind rubbish quality .... or for animated sprites that are generally quite small.
 
I use PNG all the time because I only upload graphics, sprites, and other things that I want to be in the best quality possible. I don't use GIF because I don't feel it's necessary, BMP automatically turns into JPG when uploading to Photobucket, and JPG is just low quality. PNG doesn't waver in quality or file-type.
 
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