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So, other people who take screencaps: I have a question for you.
I may have mentioned that I'm trying to cap The Three Doctors. While I'm mostly doing it for my own enjoyment and to have a handy image resource pool at the ready, I'd also like for the caps to be usable for wallpapers, icons, and the like should someone else decide to use them.
The caps, in the raw, are bitmap files, which a) are huge and b) won't upload to Scrapbook. They need to be converted into JPEGs, TIFF files, or PNG files. So far as I understand (and my knowledge of file formats is limited) TIFF and PNG are lossless and allow for the best image preservation, but the screencaps, even from the DVD, aren't exactly high-definition by today's video standards, and could probably survive the conversion to JPEG without undue quality loss. Plus, I'm pretty sure the screenshots on the Tragical History Tour are JPEGs, and I've seen icons and banners made from them that look perfectly fine.
So, cappers, icon-makers, and miscellaneous other image-workers, what file format should I go with for the caps? The JPEGs that I've got so far seem fine, but I don't know what the etiquette is on this, if there is any.
I may have mentioned that I'm trying to cap The Three Doctors. While I'm mostly doing it for my own enjoyment and to have a handy image resource pool at the ready, I'd also like for the caps to be usable for wallpapers, icons, and the like should someone else decide to use them.
The caps, in the raw, are bitmap files, which a) are huge and b) won't upload to Scrapbook. They need to be converted into JPEGs, TIFF files, or PNG files. So far as I understand (and my knowledge of file formats is limited) TIFF and PNG are lossless and allow for the best image preservation, but the screencaps, even from the DVD, aren't exactly high-definition by today's video standards, and could probably survive the conversion to JPEG without undue quality loss. Plus, I'm pretty sure the screenshots on the Tragical History Tour are JPEGs, and I've seen icons and banners made from them that look perfectly fine.
So, cappers, icon-makers, and miscellaneous other image-workers, what file format should I go with for the caps? The JPEGs that I've got so far seem fine, but I don't know what the etiquette is on this, if there is any.
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