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Didn't know PNG supported palette mode. From a pure image quality standpoint, is there any difference between a palette PNG-8 and a still GIF?
by zyx321 8y ago
Didn't know PNG supported palette mode. From a pure image quality standpoint, is there any difference between a palette PNG-8 and a still GIF?
- ec109685 8y agoPNG is lossless, so the quality will be better.
- detaro 8y agoso is GIF.
- ec109685 8y agoOops. The dithering is what makes the gif’s look off, unless the original color is carefully chosen. PNG’s do alpha better at least.
- rubbingalcohol 8y agoNot 8 bit PNGs. Those are more or less exactly like GIFs, dithering, palette transparency and all.
- detaro 8y agoAs far as I know they can have a transparency value for each palette entry, instead of just binary transparency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Transparency_of_image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Tran... > For paletted images, alpha values can be added to palette entries. The number of such values stored may be less than the total number of palette entries, in which case the remaining entries are considered fully opaque.
- donatj 8y ago8-bit PNG's can do alpha. A lot of popular tools like Photoshop however don't want to output alpha enabled 8-bit PNGs.
- lstodd 8y agoNo difference.
- kevin_b_er 8y agoThe PNG supports translucent pixels, not just 100 or 0% transparency.
- donatj 8y agoYep. Photoshop's PNG library however does not, it's palleted PNG support doesn't handle Alpha for some reason.
- tinus_hn 8y agoBetter compression and PNG allows for metadata.