WOW!
There is a big difference!
lol I see it now.

Hehe. :3

okay yeah I totally see the difference now! while it does muck up the colors... I almost think the JPG pops a bit more.

It pops more because it changed it to much brighter shade of red. Why it did that, I cannot fathom...

still lovely as ever :D <3

:3

but yeah I DO notice a difference *nods*

Hehe.

i also would never use a jpeg format for something with little shading

FA's JPG is so much worse than a JPG made in Photoshop, too, which doesn't help matters. The main point here was to show just how bad FA will mangle your image if you let it.

Not so much an FA thing as it is JPG and PNG. PNG files are always higher quality then JPG.

The conversion FA uses is horrible; however. If I save it as a JPG in Photoshop, quality level 8, the colors are the same and the artifacting isn't visible from a distance. Though FA's version is 75KB vs Photoshop's 126KB file. I just wish FA used something better, because there are so many artists who just let FA resize their images with it's JPG engine and never realize what it's doing. That's what I'm trying to point out. Even saving as a JPG in Photoshop with the highest dimension of 1280, you'll have much less artifacts and the correct colors. Even JPG compression shouldn't change red that significantly.

Ohhh my hehe. I really love your dress. ^.=.^ *hugs*

Thanks. ^^

That sucks

x3

On my monitor, the two images look identical. The only difference is that the png has a 1 pixel black border on it. I do see the difference in the pic here though.

Yeah, I've noticed on most non-calibrated monitors the colors look the same, which is another curiosity. The artifacting can be more or less visible depending on the monitor. I think most of the modern LCDs are probably losing color accuracy in favor of contrast ratio, but I'm not sure.

I can see the artifacting in the jpeg image.

That sucks D:

You still look good either way tough c:

Hehe, thanks, sweetie. <3

I'm very familiar with this at my job. I'm a programmer, not a graphics person so I can't explain the technical reasons behind it, but almost every time you try to compress a JPGs file size, the color red is always the first color to turn ugly. Often developing noticable artifacts. This has caused me to retool my own auto image sizing processes witnin my applications many times.