JohnFeg Posted September 10, 2006 Report Share Posted September 10, 2006 I recently used a shape in a slideshow that I had, inadvertently, saved in Gif format. Normally for the application in hand I would have chosen PNG.But, it worked perfectly, as intended.Is there a particular advantage in using one or other of these formats when a transparent background is called for?John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedom Posted September 10, 2006 Report Share Posted September 10, 2006 John,I think the only difference is that .gif files are limited to 256 colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFeg Posted September 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2006 John,I think the only difference is that .gif files are limited to 256 colors.Thank you Dominique. I'm sure you have created a record. A response to a question in only 11 seconds.Incroyable!John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Please never use GIF transparent images, especially for text labels.It gives various visual problems and artefacts.Also GIF image doesn't have alpha channel and it's a reason of possible visual artefacts on edges when image enlarged on the screen. It's hard to explain all related problems, but no reason to use GIF anymore. Anyway PicturesToExe converts GIF and PNG to our own lossless compressed format. This format has alpha channel, file size as PNG and loads in two times faster than PNG and in three times faster than GIF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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