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I was just wondering since I am no photoshop expert, when I save an image as GIF, what does the interlaced option mean? and how is this different from PNG? maybe it’s for another topic. Thanks for the article
Hey Paul, that was a really great post. I learned a lot in college, but what you posted here was not part of my brain knowledge. Nifty. Thanks.
Maybe you can do a post one day about animated GIFs.
Thank you very much for explaining the differences in such a simple way!
@Martini: I’ll look into writing more about GIF in future posts.
@gLf: I try to keeps things simple here. I try to strip off the very technical explanations and get down to the real points.
Heyy….really great post…..But Could You help me a bit…..I compressed a image using my LZW compression program for data….i.e. say an image with .LZW extension…How would I make it a GIF image?….For sure headers are to included…but could you help me out with this…I’m new to Image compression and have never worked on changing formats…
@Sumit: If you have the original uncompressed version, you can just use an image editor to save it as a GIF. If you don’t have the original, you can try uncompressing and then converting the image.