[bluejayflyby]

JPEG's take up more memory space than bitmaps?

[dr3am_s3ller]

No! jpeg's dont take more memory than bitmaps. jpegs are compressed pictures while bitmap (.bmp) filese occupy way more space/memory.

[wally_zebon]

Bitmaps or BMPs take up LOADS of space compared to JPG files

[berniek_2007]

It's the other way around.

[gfminis]

JPEGs take up much less room than Bitmaps. Most programs that save pictures as JPEGs will give you a quality or compression option. I often find that going as low as 50% quality makes no difference to the look of the picture but takes up even less room!

[reed_one816]

no, jpeg is compressed with matrix algorithm in mapping the picture, while bitmap is not, it just put one pixel color in one slot mapping (one slot has same size, 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, and soon, depend on the picture color quality).but if you want smaller size with the same quality try:gif or png, use any picture editor (like microsoft paint), use "save as" then chose the format.

[spiko]

No, JPEGS's take less space. Why do you try it out. Save a picture as a JPEG and then as a BMP and see the size difference.

[profremy]

NO! Bitmaps actually take more space. The BMP file format has four (4) compression fields (bi_rgb, bi_rle4, bi_rle8 and bi_bitfields). The last has no compression.JPEG is a better alternative for still images of photographic quality. It uses less space.

[Dave Hybrid]

GIF's take up even less space than jpegs.

[alex]

I reckon we should turn this into a pole......;)

[Wolfeymole]

A May Pole, a Flag Pole or do you mean a Poll, Alex? :D

[Tom Tiger]

Generally Jpegs take up less space than bitmaps because of compression, however.... the higher the resolution of a jpeg the bigger the file. So you should try it out with one shot, save it in jpeg and save it in bmp and see which one is bigger.

[Betta]

Originally Posted by reed_one816 no, jpeg is compressed with matrix algorithm in mapping the picture, while bitmap is not, it just put one pixel color in one slot mapping (one slot has same size, 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, and soon, depend on the picture color quality).but if you want smaller size with the same quality try:gif or png, use any picture editor (like microsoft paint), use "save as" then chose the format.

MS paint saves uncompressed PNG's which are larger than jpeg's in most cases. Jpeg also has a better compression rate for quality than do PNG's.

-Betta

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by Wolfeymole A May Pole, a Flag Pole or do you mean a Poll, Alex? :D

You didnt tell me i had to pole dance Wolfey lol

[its.sid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG Well take a look at this article this exactly shows how much compression does one can archive with JPEG without significant change in picture .