[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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