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Is there a difference? Is one better then the other when taking photos of coins and then putting them on photobucket to post them here? Thanks for the help, John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For photos you usually want JPEG. There may be specific circumstances where you want a losslessly compressed format like PNG, but you never ever ever ever ever want BMP.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I liked this explanation. BMP files are generally huge so there might be a problem there rather than using a JPG file. There can be some loss when converting to downsize the file but generally, our human eyes don't pick up much of a difference. ( especially mine anymore )  |
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I you are a pro photographer or graphics artist with infinite resources, the BMP file format can have some advantages, but for sharing and practical purposes, you definitely want JPEG
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks TheNickelGuy for that website. It explained it best!
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Pillar of the Community
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I use BMP or raw actually files that come out of my camera, but they are resized and cropped with other adjustments before they are saved in a jpg file for uploading to a web, I also sometimes use png files as they are actually better in color handling, but for general web use and if others I don't know will be viewing the photos then they are ALWAYS jpg files.
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Posted 02/19/2012 12:00 pm
