is it a formatting step that an image goes through when uploaded? I’m tired of converting image after image back into jpg, so if there’s like a step I can take to avoid it being a webp, it would help to know

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Efficient, perhaps, but the tiny compression gain vs png isn’t worth the horrible loss in quality of jpg compression for web images.

    Jpg is good for photos where the variance between adjacent pixels is very high, but for contiguous images (like most web images), png gives very high lossless compression and is almost always superior to jpg’s very lossy compression.

    e: rule of thumb: use jpg for photos and png for everything else.