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Anonymous
Could someone tell me why saving things as .png is so terrible? I know it is, but when I keep my pictures as jpeg, it gets grainy and weird looking. D:

Also, after my picture loads because of saving as png, could you guys C&C my photo?
>> Anonymous
PNGs can be huge and they load slow.
I guess to be fair, JPGs can be huge too since the only way to keep an image's quality is to save at 100% quality with minimal compression. Irfanview and Photoshop offer this capability.

I guess the only reason to be against PNG is to have outdated software that doesn't support it; browser problems and shit like Quicktime breaking the ability to view png files in IE. The only solution to that is upgrade but people apparently don't like doing that.
>> Anonymous
PNGs have reversible compression. JPEGs have destructive compression.

That said, they have slightly different uses. PNGs are great for high-contrast celshaded cartoon drawings, because it doesn't destroy, its also good for saving reference pictures, it has an entire color channel for transparency, making it very usable for web graphics (except older and dumb browsers can't handle this).

JPEG throws away what you can't see. At high compression levels and on high-contrast pictures, this may become visible to the naked eye. On photographs, the destruction is hidden by the low general contrast.