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I use Howie's Funware for my screengrabber. Which is the better format-- bitmaps or JPEGs? I notice the bitmaps come out at about 5 Mb for my resolution, which is 1680 x 1250 x 32 or something like that, and the JPEGs come out at 1. 2 Mb. It would seem to me that the bitmap is the higher resolution of the two by about 4X, yet Howie says under Preferences of his screenie program to use JPEG. I'm cornfoozled...

The Bitmap format is not compressed at all. That means that you do not have any quality loss. The price for that is the heaviness of the file... 5 Mb :/

The JPEG format is a compressed format. That means that there is a quality loss. The higher the compression (yes, you can adjust it somewhere, depends of the software), the higher the quality loss... but the smaller the file size

Sounds to me like bitmap is the way to go for use with a 22" LCD monitor set to DVI? I like the shot to be the best it can be. Please advise. And thanks for the quick hit...

BMP then manually scale it back to forum regulations.

BMP then manually scale it back to forum regulations.

...like it says here.... ;)....>>>>

        Freeware Screenshots
All images must be uploaded to our server. To post screenshots you must 1st upload the shot at forum upload page Please use JPG's only & keep within 1024 pixels wide & 150K max. No enhancement please except resolution & resizing.

Paul....I still reckon 1024 pixels wide is too wide to post for the average screen shot  resolution...I make mine 700* pixels wide to suit everyone, and fit the page nicely without having to scroll the page........!

P.S. * The previous YaBB Forum used to accept screen shots 800 pixels wide nicely without scrolling, but this latest Forum has wider Borders.. ...!

Bitmaps are huge as they contain more detail as mentioned above

Better for priting out etc..but then tiff are often used.

For PC viewing you will not notice the difference on first generation copies making JPEG the most superior.

This is why JPEG was invented as a way of sending electronic images usung a lower copressed filesize without quality loss as far as screen viewing is concerened.

Photobucket won't acept a bitmap easily and many sites that accept pics like Avsim will not accept a BMP

Think JPEG unless you are into high quality printing out.

A bitmap (.bmp), is exactly as it's name implies. It's mapping coordinates for every single bit... pretty much an

Using jpegs within running software; would be like trying to run a spell-check on a hexidecimal zip file.

That is the best explaination I've ever heard Brett! Hilarious!

If you like, take a look at this ... hope that helps