An image format primer for video game websites
May 9th, 2007
JPG is lossy. That means it looses information. Inaccurate. Low quality. Crap. All those screenshots of fancy next-gen titles are useless if the images are blurry, ugly, and artifacty.
PNG is lossless. That means it retains all information. Accurate. High quality. Perfect.
Stop using JPG and start using PNG. At the very least give me a choice. Sure, it uses a little more bandwidth, but if you cared about that you’d compress your HTML, CSS, and javascript, and cut back on the flash (GameSpy’s homepage cost me 951KB; GameSpot’s was 1.51MB).