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What Image Formats Do You Use on Your Websites

Nov 18, 2007 11:05PM PST

I have a full Gallery of images to upload however they are in TIFF format, should I convert these images to JPEG to save Bandwidth and space?

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Change image file format
Nov 18, 2007 11:39PM PST

I would def change the image to either JPG or PNG.

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GIF
Nov 18, 2007 11:40PM PST

What about GIF why not use a GIF Format?

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Image fornat
Nov 18, 2007 11:43PM PST

you could use GIF as well as PNG and JPG

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I always use PNG/JPG
Nov 19, 2007 4:58AM PST

PNG simply because it's the only format that gives me decent image quality when using transparent images, JPG because the file size is way smaller compared to PNG. Use a combination of both and you should be OK. GIF I use rarely... only for bullets or really small (almost colorless) graphics.

~Sovereign

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End Product
Nov 21, 2007 12:50AM PST

What type of images are these and what will they be used for.

If they are photographs and are just to be displayed on your website than PNG is probably best with JPG coming in second. I don't remember about PNG, but you lose quality when you save a file as JPG because of the compression. If these files will be edited, you will want to make the edits on the original TIFF and then convert to JPG again. If you edit the JPG and Save, edit again and save, etc. each save will lose more quality.

If they are to be downloaded and used in print, you may want to keep them in the TIFF format for the quality.

If they are Clip art style images, than GIF should work fine for you.