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Had to pick between uploading my art as PNG or JPEG for a showcase last month
I was putting together a small digital art showcase on ArtStation for a local gallery in Portland, and I spent like an hour debating whether to use PNGs for quality or JPEGs for load speed. Ended up going with PNGs because one of my pieces had a lot of fine linework and the JPEG compression was killing the detail. The gallery loading took maybe 2 extra seconds per image, but nobody complained and the prints came out crisp. Has anyone else run into this tradeoff when submitting to online showcases?
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sanchez.blake6h ago
PNGs every time, JPEGs ruin linework.
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viola_butler6h agoRising Star
Saw a test online where someone compared PNG and JPEG on a pixel art piece with hard edges. The JPEG blurred everything into a muddy mess in like five seconds. @sanchez.blake is totally right about linework especially, those compression artifacts just destroy crisp lines. PNGs are bigger files but worth it for anything that needs clean edges. Just not worth the tradeoff when you can get a cheap external drive for storage.
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