This page deals with images with a lot of colors or with graduated colors... As you can see, the PNG and JPG's that are least and moderately compressed deal with this color scheme better than does the GIF (although, the GIF is more acceptable than the most compressed JPG)...       And take note that the most compressed PaintShop Pro image is not very good looking so be careful when using your compression! Be sure to save an image in bmp format and compress from there so that if you make a big mistake when compressing you have not lost all of your work and wind up having to start from scratch!       PNG is a newer format that most software can now handle, it is very good when it comes to compression though at times you have to watch the file size because sometimes when you have a PNG and JPG that look similar or a PNG and GIF that look similar you will find that the PNG has a significantly larger file size... Experiment to find which is best... This is in BMP format 117 kb PaintShop Pro non-optimized palette interlaced PNG format 30.9 kb PaintShop Pro optimized palette interlaced PNG format 30.9 kb This is a PhotoShop PNG format 32 kb PaintShop Pro non-optimized palette non-interlaced PNG format 26.0 kb PaintShop Pro optimized palette non-interlaced PNG format 26.0 kb This is an 87a non-interlaced GIF image 16 kb This is an 87a interlaced GIF image 16 kb This is a PhotoShop 89a non-interlaced GIF image 16 kb This is a PhotoShop 89a interlaced GIF image 16 kb This is a JPG image that is not compressed very much "10" in Photoshop 28 kb This is a JPG image that is compressed moderately "5" in Photoshop 12 kb This is a JPG image that is greatly compressed "0" in Photoshop 8 kb This is a PaintShop Pro compressed "1" JPG image 20.9 kb This is a PaintShop Pro compressed "10" JPG image 9.45 kb PaintShop Pro compressed "25" JPG image 6.20 kb PaintShop Pro compressed "35" JPG image 5.38 kb PaintShop Pro compressed "50" JPG image 4.55 kb PaintShop Pro compressed "75" JPG image 3.36 kb This is a PaintShop Pro compressed "82" JPG image 3.0 kb This is a PaintShop Pro compressed "90" JPG image 2.39 kb This is a PaintShop Pro compressed "99" JPG image 1.59 kb Back to the File Types home page Saving in Black and White page Saving with Big Color Areas page Please note, all images on this page were made by me, BubblyBabs and are copyrighted to me... I do not mind if other people use these images on their sites as long as there is a link back to the tutorial pages. Thanks!