Originally posted here by jethro
The JPG algorhythm for compressing image files is generally seen as being quite ``lossy`` and not good with big detail, however JPG files are much smaller than GIF files.
WTF are you talking about!?! Not good with big detail!? LOL! JPEG files are much much better than .gif files as far as detail goes. It is a great format because its got good compression and good quality so that you can get a high quality image with a small file size.