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molf on June 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: TinyPNG: Lossy compression for PNG that preserves ...

The tools you mention use lossless compression. For 24-bit PNG files that means they probably won't come close the kind of lossy compression used by TinyPNG.

trebor on June 27, 2012 [–]

The comparison will be subjective. One will retain full detail (24-bit color) and the other will not. The "better" will be subjective, as I said.

I wish Photoshop gave the option to save an 8-bit PNG with a FULL alpha channel—that's what this seems to do.

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