• Jerkface@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    For comparison, that screenshot is 342kb, and Super Mario Bros is 40kb. The screenshot is more than 8.5 times bigger than the game it comes from.

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      9 months ago

      I managed to recreate almost the same screenshot in 5kb (and with much less compression artifacts!)

      before adding the text and circles it was only 1.6kb

      it’s a case where jpeg compression ironically results in the picture getting 60x larger and more blurry because everyone recompresses the images and jpeg is designed for large photos and not pixel art