 One of the cool things with 2-bit illustration that I noticed. If I save the drawing at twice the resolution(1024x640) that I'm drawing it in(512x320), downsizing it from the jpg to a tga and re-importing it is nearly lossless, I see maybe one or two confused pixels of loss during the compression from a 80% jpg. It means that I can always recover my work from a jpg at 200% resolution if I loose the chr source file. 10 comments
@helveticablanc this is for cases where I must use jpgs, pngs are basically lossless for pixelart so that's not an issue there :)  @neauoire That's what I kinda figured! PNG is my default, but I gotta convert most of my stuff to JPG for social media to reduce moiré and other, weirder bugs. @helveticablanc somewhat tangeantial, but have you ever heard of hamming code? It's like an extra bit of information in information exchange to validate that the information hasn't been lost or changed, it's kind of clever, in a permacomputing way, especially for drawings.  @neauoire PNG has a 2-bit format (and PyPNG supports it), but presumably the interest in JPG is because social media sites will convert it to JPG anyway? |
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@neauoire I wonder if you'd have even better luck using like PNG-8 instead of JPG. Possibly smaller files, too!