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Screenshots - Why .png?

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Forboding Angel
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Re: Screenshots - Why .png?

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CarRepairer wrote: Googlefrog is referring to the fact that you reached the limit of quote nesting (3) and anyone who would want to further quote the quotes would have to fake it by using a screenshot of the nested quotes. Screenshot.. get it?
Ahh gotcha. Was that supposed to be funny or something? If so I completely missed the boat lol :-)
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KDR_11k
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Re: Screenshots - Why .png?

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Brain Damage wrote:it used to be default jpg, it got changed to png because tons of people were using the jpg screenshots to report about graphic glitches, and the jpg artifacts were making pretty hard to spot them
Also lossless PNGs can still be turned into jpegs if you want to, doesn't work the other way around.
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