Sorry if this has been asked, but if I have images that are all the same size and stuff, which will load the fastest? .png, .jpg, .gif...

I think .gif will...

If you have a graphic that is relatively the same size and only differs by extension type (gif, jpg, etc.), in my opinion - .gif loads quicker than any. And I think .bmp can be some of the slowest loading as well.

GIF will load faster, then PNG and then JPG. JPGs are usually bigger than GIFs due to high resolutions. You can compress JPGs but this can effect the quality of the image. Best bet it to use JPGs for photos, and GIFs for animation, drawings etc.

i think png is almost the same quality then jpg, i can't see a difference

I've heard that PNG will take over and GIFs will no-longer be used.

and wut about animated gif huh? png can't have more then 1 frame

I spose they would remain. It was only what i heard, so i don't know if it will happen.

Originally posted by Sphere
i think png is almost the same quality then jpg, i can't see a difference

in photos, no there is no difference, but in text there is. Save a .png with text on it and it will look fine. now save an .jpg with text on it and around the text there it will be kind of blurry looking. That's the difference between .jpg and .png :)

remember ONLY use .jpg when you use photos only. When you have text on it too then try to use .gif instead ( and run the optimizer to get it better looking) or use .png. I like .png the most, but to answer your question i would choose for .gif

.gif is also the most common format used for webimages such as layouts etc becuase it doens't let text look blurry.

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Mirna

GIFs sometimes ruins my pictures by making several colors look like one, even in blinkies. That isn't normal, is it?

.gif are not supposed to be used any longer because the company that owns the format wants to make it that everyone has to buy a licence to use them...the licence costs hundreds of dollars or something like that. .png are great because they are great quality...better than .jpg and still can do thinks like .gif does transparent sections.

the company that owns the rights to the .gif format already does charge for licenses. that's why Serif charges $1 on their Free PhotoPlus if you want to be able to save as .gif

are .png the slowest to load, or about the same as .jpg?

^ I think .pngs probably take longer because they don't antialias like .jpgs do (antialiasing= the blurry text issue). But most people have at least 56k these days, so they shouldn't have any problems with .png. Personally I like .gif because the files are so small. But if there are any photos in the layout or whatever, always use .png. If you really want a small .gif file, you can compress the colours in a photo using the Ordered Dither technique in Photoshop- it's very popular right now and produces a sort of "twinkly dithering" effect such as you would see if you looked gradient (like on the title bars in Windows 98+) after reducing the number of colours on your monitor to 256. Pretty isn't it? In Neopaint you can use the Color Halftone effect, but it will be in black and white- so paste it into something that handles layers (Photoshop etc) and then put the original coloured image in another layer and play with the opacity a bit. Yay!

Does that mean you have to pay for also putting GIF images on your homepage soon? OMG??? :(

You have to pay starting now actually. June 20, 2003 for any US webpages and June 20, 2004 for the UK and the rest of the world...it's different due to different patent expiry dates.

Originally posted by knudddel
Does that mean you have to pay for also putting GIF images on your homepage soon? OMG??? :(

No, you don't have to pay. This is very old news, and software makers have been paying for years. Anyone who produces software that can save an image as a gif has to pay a fee to the company who holds the patent to the gif , which is perfectly reasonable. There's a certain mentality from a lot of people who go online that they should get everything for free (music, software, etc.). I don't get it.

This is another one of those internet rumors that gets blown way out of proportion.

and even if we did have t pay for the gif, you have to think about something. some toerh crazy company woudl make a new format for animation in web graphics. even though you dont even see them much. Also if they made everyone who uses the gif pay, then they woudl run out of business because of the simple fact that peole wont pay for something if there is a free alternative to it. its human nature.

Exactly, plus their not going to plough through every website looking for gifs that arn't payed for.

you should remeber that some browsers do not support png pictures.

Originally posted by darkowl
you should remeber that some browsers do not support png pictures.

they do, i thought png is specially made vor web

darkowl is right, some browsers do not support them. Although the most new browsers do, and most people use a very new version of one of those browsers nowdays :)

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Mirna

even the new version of mozilla firebird accepts pngs! i think...lol

Hmmm. I had a PNG as a background lately and it took so long to load you were nearly through whole the site :) OK, maybe not that long, but much longer than my GIF background. :D Do you have t do something with PNGs to stop them from being so "big"? Or are they just not good for backgrounds?

they are normally perfectly fine for a background, IF you mean tiled backgrounds. If you have more of an image then an 'little background' then yeah you could say "people should just have more patient" (that's what i think) or you could change it to another format.

if you have a tiled background it shouldn't load long, because you could make one little image and make it tile across the page.

it just depends on what you want, how you think about it and what you like yourself.

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Mirna

Na, I don't have a tiled one. I have a big one but with GIF it's faster now. I scanned a CD and made a Brush and made my background with it. I think it looks cool:) (Well other pple don't but, oh well)

No one type of image loads faster. It is based on the size of the image file. Generaly I believe GIF's are smallest but with some images the bmp or jpg can be smaller. I usaly just save in every format and then see which image is smallest and make sure their is no quality loss in it.