Re: Cropping irregular shapes - Photoshop Elements 6.0

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:11:12 +0200, nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Johan W.
Elzenga) wrote:

>You do have to
>realize that not every file format sup****ts layers and transparency,
>though. TIFF does sup****t it, JPEG does not, for example.

....Had the Joint Photographic Experts Group approved ISO 10918-1's
original plan to include a "transparency bit" to give their images a
"non-color" to use for transparencies, this wouldn't be a problem and
GIF would possibly be about as extinct as original ZIP is today. The
problem is that nobody at the JPEG group envisioned the usefulness of
having a high-resolution image that could "float" on any background,
such as the ones that would be needed for the
then-still-in-the-distance World Wide Web. Granted, PNGs allow for
transparency, but you can't get anywhere near the compression *and*
quality you'd expect from a JPEG when trying to get the PNG down to a
more bandwidth-friendly size. 

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