CompuServe Messages

To be honest, I am really against supporting jpeg as an output format… I don't mean like cross my arms, and stamp my foot against it, but well, kinda like… Ahhh MAAANN… JPEG?… REALLY?… To me it seems you always want to keep the image in the RGB or uncompressed domain, especially for things like compositing, esp when working with alpha channels. Having just one set of jpeg algorithms wandering through the image is one thing, but when you add the second layer of another jpeg algorithm on top of it, the chances of rapidly increasing artifacting get better and better. We have tried MANY generations of importing and exporting from the PAR without noticeable effect. Not so with some of the JPEG software I have seen which butchers the image in only a few generations.. All this doesn't mean that we will never support jpeg, we probably will soon enough, but *I* won't use it… Brick