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		zuzun on June 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What’s the best lossless image format? JPEG doesn't support transparency.

chrismorgan on June 8, 2022 [–]

Yeah, images where lossy compression is fine but an alpha channel is needed are the one situation where switching to WebP (or AVIF, and soon JPEG XL) makes sense.

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