Jpegs Versus .bmp's / myLot

Australia

January 24, 2007 6:24am CST

Which do you think is better in terms of quality? What about space, i.e. when you print a whole screen and dump it in Microsoft Paint or another program; which takes up more space when they are saved? Do .jpg and .bmp of the same dimenesions/size sacrifice any quality?

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ronaldinu

@ronaldinu (12422)

• Malta

24 Jan 07

I prefer .jpg since bmp occupy too much space while jpg are compressed. BMP and JPG are two different file formats. JPG's files are compressed as much as 1/10 or 1/20 their original size, the lost information is usually undetectable to the naked eye. BMP save files as they are with no compression that is why they are usually large and occupy so much space

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@blindedfox (3315)

• Philippines

27 Jan 07

JPEGs are better formats for they are smaller in size. Also, the image quality is good and sometimes even better than BMPs. A 1MB BMP file can easily be converted to a 50KB JPEG file. =) Stick with JPEGs. =)

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lilaclady

@lilaclady (28207)

• Australia

24 Jan 07

I might be wrong but I thought bmp as bigger than jpg and tif was the biggest of both....but I could be wrong...:)

@visitorinvasion (7709)

• United States

24 Jan 07

Use the .jpg. Bitmaps suck and take up too much space.