Thread:Kaydenmario8/@comment-5956954-20191119001338/@comment-5956954-20191119110832

1. Oh, there's no need, then. Tampering with images would let go of its original authenticity, even if the modified version is perceivably better (mainly the outlines of the characters are a bit sharper, from what I see, nothing else is much different). I am familiar with waifu2x, though, and that tool is extremely useful for increasing the resolution of promising PNG work submitted by users. I thank you for that.

2. I use FileOptimizer for PNG compression and RIOT for JPG compression. They're both very useful tools for optimisation purposes, though be weary that FileOptimizer takes a very long time after the first 4 tools of 16 are used (when set to best compression). JPG is much faster, though.

3. Oh no, lossy is perfectly fine, though preferably with RIOT and in JPG. See, PNG is used because it losslessly compresses an image into a Raster format, that is, it doesn't generate blocks of artefacts that reduce the number of used colors in an image. This is why the character page images are in PNG, as they are meant to be full-quality models. Meanwhile, JPG is purely for those who don't mind quality differences when zooming in but really mind users not having their limited data be eaten up, have images break upon loading, images taking a very long time to load, and so on. PNG and JPG have two different purposes, and I'm happy with both being used to the best extent they can be.