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  • Bastou
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    Hey, someone mentioned there were artifacts in the banner due to the jpg format, do you have it in either gif or png?

    • imakestuffgood
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      I'm not sure what that means, the best I can do is convert the jpg to png for you. I didn't keep the original file. http://imgur.com/6ZGtVFJ I hope that's what you're after.

      • Bastou
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        It means the edge of the letters are fuzzy. This is normal for the jpg format, which is meant for live photographs. It comes from how the compression is achieved. But both gif and png use a different method to compress images which do not create fuzzy edges where sharp color changes happen (these are pretty rare in photography, but quite common in computer created icons and images). I'm not sure we can get a much better result by converting the original jpg, but I've taken it and sharpened it a bit. It's not perfect, but a bit better. Thanks nonetheless!

        • imakestuffgood
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          ok so no more jpg files then, thanks for explaining that to me.

        • Bastou
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          @imakestuffgood -

          Well, jpg files are preferred if your banner is a picture. Gif is the smallest available format, but it is limited in color. It can only have 256 different colors (picked out of the 16 million defined byt the 256 tones of blue, red and green), so it is ideal for computer made logos or text with few gradients, or a limited color palette. Png offers the best of both jpg and gif quality, at the expense of space : they'll take more mB for the same quality of a jpg or gif, but won't have any of their limitations.

          So if you're unsure, make a png and convert it to both jpg and gif, zoom it way up to see the fine parts, and pick the one that looks best.