GIF is absolutely not for good quality photo, you get some size
reduction (330r original size). i.e a 640x480 24 bit file is around
900K and a 8 bit GIF is around 300K. The GIF is a lossless format but
the picture quality is largely lost during 24bit to 8 bit conversion.
If you use the original 24bit file and save in JPEG mode I bet you
will get much better result by saving a 640x480 file to a 150K JPEG
file (instead of 300K GIF), select the compression level to achieve
the quality you wanted. JPEG works better with large file, I got very
good quality picture with a 25MB file compressed to 2MB.
You can found some samples from my web:
http://www.glink.net.hk/~olympus/photo.htm
C.H.Ling
Brian Swale wrote:
> I did the colour corrections, contrast fixing (most important to restore the
> detail of the actual print) and sharpening, in Adobe PhotoDeluxe. (I don't
> have
> the HDD space to run Photoshop at the moment.) PhotoDeluxe uses PDD
> files for its in-house image alterations. So I did all that stuff on the PDD
> file,
> and exported a re-sized version to a gif file for storage as it is a lossless
> format. Then I went back and created a jpg file for the web. It turned out
> that
> the jpg file that gave the same quality of display as the gif file was
> significantly larger. So I scrapped it and used the gif. The gif file is
> already
> bigger than I'd like.
>
> Brian
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