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> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Dan Michaels
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 18:09
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OT]: Alice's Snail
>
>
> At 10:03 AM 9/8/01 +1200, you wrote:
> >> Could anyone possibly convert this to gif or bmp for me?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> - dan
> >
> >Using that image and Paint Shop Pro 6 increases the size
> >from 3k jpg to 8k gif or 98k bmp
> >
>
> As I discovered from several images I received from others.
> jpg = small.

        And as I demonstrated to a colleage today JPEG does NOT always mean small,
it depends on the type of image. If you have a picture with thousands of
colours and lots of grandually changing colours then JPEG is the smallest of
the more popular formats. HOWEVER, if you have a pciture with a limited
number of colours and very high contrast (ie. lines or blocks of solid
colour) then GIF is far superior. For example, today we took a few screen
shots and he selected JPG, since we were going to email them I suggested he
use GIF since it would be smaller. The result? The GIF was ~5 times smaller!
17k in GIF format and 90k in JPG format. One can't just say that one format
will be smaller then another, it depends on what is being compressed. TTYL

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