jpg vs png

[Patrick W. Barnes]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Máirín Duffy wrote:
>
> Yeh, I did! With PNG crush I got the Inkscape-exported, 58KB png down to
> 48KB and I couldn't squeeze it down anymore. :(
>
> The image (the (FC6 banner in the upper left) has a lot of gradients and
> JPG compression would look a lot better for the size it's at now (~10k).
> The previous version which was a jpg was only ~7k. I think there is some
> way to squeeze PNGs down though for photographic/gradient artwork, but,
> none of the FOSS tools I can find seem to do it. :(
>

Since JPEG is lossy and PNG is not, JPEG has a bit of an advantage in reducing 
image sizes.  As was already pointed out, reducing bit depth helps.  If you 
haven't already, give optipng a try.  It's in our repositories.  :-)

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