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Coinpurse
March 22nd, 2007, 07:04 PM
Hey guys, anyone ever notice after you finish saving your files at JPG's, then return to viewing them.... Some parts are pixelized? Is there a way to fix this? so that my images will be as sharp and smooth as the BMP?

I save all of my images at highest quality, and it still does that (high and low res)
Anid Maro
March 22nd, 2007, 07:49 PM
Part of the sacrifice of compressing an image.

Look up information about the different formats, particularly "lossy" versus "un-lossy" formats. It won't fix your problem, but at least you'll know why a jpeg won't be as crisp as a bitmap.
FlipMcgee
March 22nd, 2007, 08:14 PM
why a jpeg won't be as crisp as a bitmap.

I think you meant to say "as crisp as vector art."

Jpegs are bitmaps, as well as .bmp ones.


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Anid Maro
March 22nd, 2007, 09:54 PM
I think you meant to say "as crisp as vector art."

Jpegs are bitmaps, as well as .bmp ones.

True.

What I was getting at was the lossy compression of a jpeg image compromises the original quality of the bmp image (which is what I was referring to with "bitmap", though a jpeg is a bitmap as well).

But yes, for crispness and lack of pixelation, vector art is the way to go. However, I figured the original poster wasn't working with vector art (since the question was about the jpeg format) so I limited my answer to raster formats.
Coinpurse
March 23rd, 2007, 03:23 AM
Theres gotta be a way to do it, i've noticed it alot with other professional artists as well... But when i look at marco or MC's work, i rarely see it happening... Wonder what they do differently.

I'll research more on it, I don't believe the file format effects it completely, theres something else we're missing here.
Kainin
March 23rd, 2007, 06:56 AM
Have you tryed PDF? I know all the downloadmags come as a PDF so that might help?
Reiem
March 23rd, 2007, 04:58 PM
If you save to jpg you will ALWAYS loose image quality. You can read about the format here: JPEG in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG). Depending on the color richness of your image you can try saving to gif, which only saves up to 256 colors but also has one for transparency. If you want full quality and be able to watch 'em almost anywhere, save to PNG format.