[thelist] Watermark backgrounds and AOL
aardvark
roselli at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 13 11:25:07 CST 2001
> From: Mark Howells <mark at mountain.ch>
>
> You might get better results if you use a jpg for that kind of image.
> The file size may increase a little, but the aliasing will improve.
> Just remember not to go too mad on compression the image when you save
> it.
not that that's related to the issue at hand, but i did want to state
that given the nature of the image (flat color, light color,
background) that you're almost *definitely* better off using .gif for
the file... you can get those watermarks down to 4 colors quite
often, and if you have no dithering, it can be much smaller than a
.jpg of comparable quality... and if it's a .jpg of comparable size,
you'll find it introduces artifacts and noise -- most noticeable in
large areas of flat color and on hard edges...
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