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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The compression artifacts (from converting B/W line art to jpg) being printed on the page have given me a new pet peeve

[–] androogee@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Now imagine these corrupted images being engraved into stone or steel by machine. Turned into literal artifacts for future generations to ponder over.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"The intentional grey diamonds, you see this was a highly advanced society capable of high definition videos and images, represents a loving fealty to that which is complete or known. The imperfections in the art represent an acknowledgement of their societal short falls. This will be on the exam by the way."

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"There is much debate about how aware the primitive minds were of the degradation of their information. Did they believe older things looked worse when they were photographed or did they understand it was their photographs themselves that got worse over time?

Even more surprising is that their oldest media wasn't even able to maintain any information at all about colour."

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Jpg for photos, png for everything else.

It’s an easy rule of thumb, it hurts that 20 years of repeating it seems to have had zero effect.

Maybe this helps: Jpg fucks up your image, and png doesn’t.

Or: jpg is lossy, png is lossless.

Or: It’s better to save photos as png than cartoons as jpg.

Seriously, I hope some of this breaks through because deep fried images are so fucking unnecessary.