Hi,

"Kalle Ounapuu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So maybe it's the compression you're choosing for the PNG? All your
> PNG's are RGB... so that has lossy compression. Are you putting it
> down a little bit?

PNG doesn't do lossy compression. Whatever compression factory you
choose, it's lossless.

> Since these are screenshots of applications... I would recommend
> outputting Indexed PNG's instead of RGB. This has some advantages in
> this case... like smaller file sizes (only a few colours are being
> used in your screenshots)... plus it uses lossless compression, so
> your screenshots will not get blurry.

Indexed PNGs may be smaller but they often look crappy. Simply because
256 colors are most often not enough to reproduce a screenshot.


Sven
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