> Mike Foster wrote:

> TIFF is another good option, however the Wikipedia entry for PNG says it 
> uses a type of lossless compression.  Have I missed something here?  I 
> am very curious to know the answer as I have started to save my 
> completed photographs as PNG because I thought there was no penalty for 
> doing so.

I agree with you, Mike. My understanding is that the different
compression settings of PNG only effect how rigorously (and time
consuming) the compression algorith is; i.e., that all PNG files are
losslessly compressed.

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