pic thread...

In a time not very far away....

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Cool...
Aurora borealis and aurora australis (and whatever more names
they have) are just some of the coolest phenomenas... I saw it
much more in the north... but I've seen some really goos ones
down in southern Norway as well. Lovely

..but why in heaven's sake have they saved such kinds of
images in gif format?!? That is beyond my comprehension...
well well... they end up with lower quality pics with bigger size!
(Sorryyyyy, I had to say it. My inner senses forced me.)
Hey, there is 1 there in jpg format.. clearly a better image! ;)
 
Cool drawing, Lordenlil! :lol:

Have any of you ppl here seen some Dimmu Borgir cover or smth with a rather skinny person, maybe only his chest, with pireced nipples, and a hand coming out of his chest hith a heart in it? I haven't seen it and it annoys me. I wanna see it....... :baah: It's quite new, I think.....
 
Originally posted by Lordenlil
..but why in heaven's sake have they saved such kinds of
images in gif format?!? That is beyond my comprehension...
well well... they end up with lower quality pics with bigger size!
(Sorryyyyy, I had to say it. My inner senses forced me.)
Hey, there is 1 there in jpg format.. clearly a better image! ;)

Because gif is a lossless compression format, while jpg isn't....
 
Well... the pics are not ment for web if that's the case. Those
pics are indeed on a website, and it would be good for ppl to
have less d/l time and images that look smoother... besides,
if they want lossless for d/l, they should go with Portable
Network Graphics (png) lossless compression. So THERE!

GIF has only got 256 colors as well, and should be used for
images containing larger areas of the same color (that's often
the rule I use, and it works.. I usually know very well what kind
of image will be most compressed and best looking in a particular
format. But with most images one can get the best quality if
compressed to jpeg, max quality... because gif only has 256 colors.

On the other hand, gifs can be used to make animations, and
also make images with transparent areas (+interlacing). But for
ordinary photographs - jpeg is clearly the choice... if not png,
which becomes more like a mix between jpeg and gif I feel.

But as a conclusion: If they wanted lossless images that are also
smoother, I'd choose png even though u usually get bigger files
than with jpeg.... but I would smoothen the pics a bit first, though
 
I am sorry about that... Here's a pic of me and a couple of
friends a week ago... (I'm in a funny mood now by the way...
feels like I'm high or something.. go figure. I'm sitting here
making some cover art ;) )

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Joar, Ole and me

As you can see we are true satanist-loooking and we're just sitting there hating before watching Snatch