File formats

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.8K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
> TIFF is an uncompressed, raw image format, and I believe that its
> lossless.  So the images are HUGE (in filesize).

TIFF is lossless and, indeed, file sizes are enormous.
 
> PNG is a compressed lossy format.

Thanks for playing! PNG compression is lossless. 
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngintro.html

Kurt
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