[Coco] Master List

[Theodore Evans (Alex)]

On Mar 7, 2004, at 12:33 AM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:

> TIF is the *best* for long term storage as the effort you put in will 
> not
> have to be redone if you keep a lower resolution only. Save the 
> originals!

You keep a higher resolution GIF or PNG as they are efficiently 
compressed lossless formats.  GIF also supports multiple images in a 
file (though it is only rarely used, and is not widely supported).  
There is a variation on PNG called MNG which supports multiple images 
in a file (among other things).  JPEG is bad for this because it is 
lossy.  The only advantages that I can think of that TIFF has over GIF 
is that it allows for more than 256 colors and that it supports greater 
than 24-bit color spaces.  The only advantage I can think of that it 
has over PNG is that it allows for more than one image in a file.  The 
only advantage over MNG is that it is more widely supported.

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Theodore (Alex) Evans | 2B v ~2B = ?