Saving in JPEG and PNG,..which is more appropriate and okay?

chetaseo Level 2

August 17, 2016, 10:26 am

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Saving in JPEG and PNG,..which is more appropriate and okay?

For those who have used photoshop or Corel draw before or is into graphic design, please which format is very much convenient and okay to save your finished design work,...is it PNG or JPEG? what advantage does one has over the other or is there any advantage at all?

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Lynne

Firstly I just need to say I am not a graphic designer and I don't know how to use Photoshop or Corel draw.... is this for publishing images on your website?

From the way I understand it, from what I have been told, a PNG is better quality but it is a larger image. A JPG is slightly less quality but the size is much smaller. For this reason it was recommended to me to use JPG images on my website because it can affect loading speed which in turn can affect my readers user experience on my website and may even possibly affect my ranking in turn.

Like I said this is not my area of expertise, so this is what other people have advised me

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MendasDigital

- PNG is lossless (so long as you don't use a lower bitdepth than the source).
- PNG supports transparency.
- JPEG is lossy; useful when size is an issue.
- Both JPEG and PNG are widely supported (though JPEG is more popular and more widely supported).

I'm not a graphic designer, have never used Corel Draw, and hate using Adobe Photoshop. When I do create pictures from scratch (not something I do very often), I typically use Adobe Fireworks (sometimes Macromedia Fireworks).

I save my finished work as a Fireworks PNG. I refer to this as my "workfile" which is a finished editable copy of my work that I can go back to. Fireworks PNG is a PNG image that uses private data chunks to retain layers. You can read more about that here ( http://superuser.com/questions/836494/how-to-read-fireworks-png-layers-without-fireworks ). The downside of using Fireworks PNG is that only Adobe products like Fireworks can open those layers, so you are locked into Adobe products

. It's best to stay away from that if you can. I then export a JPEG or PNG for usage/distribution. I used to prefer PNG (because it's lossless), but nowadays I prefer JPEG (because I've realized I don't need lossless, and benefit more from the reduced filesize). Just a personal preference.

Which to use comes down to how you're going to use it, and your personal preference. If you save a workfile you can always go back and export again in another format.

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Everett

Most images on websites are saved as .JPG. The .JPG extension is the most widely used image format. If you want your website to load fast, and to seamlessly, always use .JPG. Only attempt to use .PNG extension when you have a large image that you don't want to render for web pages because you'll lose the image quality. I personally like to use JPGs when I save images for a website but I will use .PNG for service images because PNG has a higher quality.

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chetaseo

Thank you so much everett and idealmike, you have all said all and both arguments are the same, from these, i will go for JPEG format when i want to use the images on websites and the internet generally but PNG when i want to print it out in form of flyers, posters etc. i have finally gotten my answer to my question.

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Saving in JPEG and PNG,..which is more appropriate and okay?

Saving in JPEG and PNG,..which is more appropriate and okay?

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