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Re: filmscanners: Encoding/compression Was:CD storage
GIF is smaller due to limited (256) number of colors, PNG does it much
better and supports even 24 bit color.
At 18:15 31/01/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>>Hi everyone,If you are storing lots of images its worth using Photoshops
>>LZW compression,If you have Photoshop that is .It will save a fair bit
>>of space and wont degrade your hard won image like Jpeg does.
>
>I would assume that LZW is a sort of runlength encoding or otherwise
>non-destructive compression. There is no reason not to use it.
>
>Otherwise I believe GIF is a compressed bitmap format. You don't loose any
>quality by exporting to GIF, but your files get significantly smaller than
>with TIFF/BMP.
>
>
>Tom
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