[Nobody]

I prefer a JPEG image; unlike a GIF, it doesn't often result in much "loss of color quality", and takes up very little disk/web space, unlike a bitmap. I haven't tried the other ones on the poll; I've only ever saved an image as a GIF, a bitmap, and a JPEG. The other image names were other image choices from MS Paint while saving.

[Excalibur's Power]

I like PNG, for some reason, it gives me better quality,

[GohanDuo]

Nobody, on Apr 2 2005, 04:56 PM, said:

I prefer a JPEG image; unlike a GIF, it doesn't often result in much "loss of color quality", and takes up very little disk/web space, unlike a bitmap. I haven't tried the other ones on the poll; I've only ever saved an image as a GIF, a bitmap, and a JPEG. The other image names were other image choices from MS Paint while saving.

I prefer JPG for the same reasons that you gave...

[gsninja]

I like both the JPEG and the PNG for their quality and whatnot, bot overall, I prefer the JPEG images for Nobody's reasons as well...

[Nick Presta]

Uh, for regular pictures (one in which quality isn't a priority), Jpeg images are fine for their size/quality ratio.

For an image where quality is a must, TIFF and Bitmap files are fine by me.

[Max]

There are multiple image formats for good reason: images are needed for different kinds of tasks:

GIF - small, low color web graphics
JPG - large photographs (thousands of colors)
PNG - high-quality image with transparency (kinda combining JPG and GIF)
BMP & TIFF - Completely loseless image (zero compression or optimization) needed for mission critical work or used as the intial storage format.

I personally like PNG because it allows good compression on large images (like photos) but also allows the option of having a transparent background. If Internet Explorer supported transparency in PNGs then 99% of internet images would be PNGs.

[Mallick]

I prefer PNG, though, on my computer, PNG doesn't support transparency, so when I need to make something transparent, I use GIF.

[Andross]

You're probably optimizing your PNG incorrectly...

I prefer jpg for high-quality images when I need compression and png for high quality with little to no compression. TIFFs are too large, and bmps are clunky and out of date when it comes to web graphics.

[musicman2059]

I myself prefer using JPEGs.

JPEG: Good compression for only a tad bit of color loss
BMP: Keeps original color, but file size is waaaaaaay too much. The only reason why you see me uploading images in bitmap format here is because I dont' have anything to save to JPEG to. (I swear, the computer I have, although it's not the one I use for Internet stuff, must be the only one in the world to have a version of mspaint that can save images in JPEG and GIF format)
GIF: Can be animated and file size is really low, but there's too much color loss involved.
PNG: Must like bitmaps, except smaller in file size, but IE doesn't support them initially

[Kubjelle]

Andross: No, it's just that IE dosen't support transparent PNG images..
I think you have to run it trough a filter in IE or something, I don't remember..

I use GIF in small images and images that needs to be transparency.. For almost everythin else i use PNG..

: o

[Kite]

I really like PNG's. I just do. XD Ever since I say the transparency thingie on my friends site, I have begun saving (almost) every picture as PNG's.

[Andross]

Kubjelle, on Apr 2 2005, 08:48 PM, said:

Andross: No, it's just that IE dosen't support transparent PNG images..
I think you have to run it trough a filter in IE or something, I don't remember..

I use GIF in small images and images that needs to be transparency.. For almost everythin else i use PNG..

: o

:D

Golly, I'm not stupid, I already know about that. He was saying he can't get them to go transparent on his computer (and he doesn't use IE I believe). The reason he can't is probably because he:
a. Isn't actually saving/optimizing the png properly in Photoshop
b. Doesn't have the program to do it

Although, assuming he isn't using just Paint (I think I remember him having Photoshop), I was going with option a.

BTW: I believe the trick is some utterly complicated <div> hack which is really more of a pain if you have a bunch of transparent PNGs :P . I remember reading about it somewhere. Google it and you should find it if you're interested or anything.

[Crimson Barrel Knight]

I usually stick to .JPEGs, since the file size isn't horribly destructive against some poor guy's computer with dial-up. I used to use .PNG, but that was just like the slightly modified twin of a bitmap. Shame on me ...

[Mallick]

Andross, on Apr 2 2005, 09:37 PM, said:

:D

Golly, I'm not stupid, I already know about that. He was saying he can't get them to go transparent on his computer (and he doesn't use IE I believe). The reason he can't is probably because he:
a. Isn't actually saving/optimizing the png properly in Photoshop
b. Doesn't have the program to do it

Thank you, Andross. I use FireFox, but I still don't know how to get PNG's transparent, though, it doesn't really matter, most of the people I talk to on MSN use IE, and so GIF is I use for transparent pictures...

Also, yes, I have photoshop, I just use Paint for stuff like sprites, then make them transparent elsewhere.

[TobiasMar]

OMG...I just realized something! I made two of the same image, saved one in BMP (24-bit) format, another in PNG format....the PNG had a little better color quality, but the BMP was 2.25 MB while the PNG was only 325 KB....Pngs r0xx0rz.