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- Hangar, Nycint, Panel2, Toronto Copyright 1999, Charles Baumann
- All other photographs Copyright 1999, John M. Miano
-
- This directory contains some sample images in different formats. These images
- have been created using several different applications.
-
- The subdirectory JPEG Quality contains the image AIRPLANE saved with various
- JPEG quality factors.
-
- The files
-
- airplane-Y.bmp
- airplane-Cb.bmp
- airplane-Cr.bmp
-
- show the individual components in the AIRPLANE image converted to grayscale.
-
- These extensions are used for special encodings:
-
- -rle : Run Length Encoded BMP
- -g : Grayscale
- -8bit : 8 Bits Per Pixel
- -prog : Progressive JPEG
- -pass : Sequential JPEG encoded in 3 scans
- -f : JPEG encoded with fixed Huffman tables
-
- In most cases file formats, in the order of best compression, are:
- 1. JPEG
- 2. PNG
- 3. GIF
-
- There are some variations in this ordering depending upon the image. Keep in mind,
- however, that GIF only handles 8-bit data. In cases where a GIF file is smaller
- than a PNG or JPEG version of the same image, the most likely reason is the
- difference in the number of bits per pixel. Several of the PNG images have been
- been created using both 24-bits per pixel and 8-bits per pixel to demonstrate the
- difference.
-