Fan Art Being A DIK: Fan Art

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Pillock

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hi, can someone explain why when I save images from f95zone on my computer they don't open and it says that the file is damaged?!
Your probably saving the pre-view. Depending on your browser plugins that'll be 7 different kinds of "Not an Image". Click on it in the post, then the little box with an arrow on it at the top right hand corner of the image preview.
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Because now the images when they are sent to f95zone become ".avif", so when you download an image, it comes like this "image.png.avif", the computer will say that it is .png, .jpg, etc, but it is .avif. So it looks like it is corrupted.
Try this plugin if you're on Chrome.
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Penfold Mole

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Try this plugin if you're on Chrome.
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Converting an image into PNG or JPG that is already converted into AVIF from PNG or JPG may not be the best idea.

While converting an AVIF into a PNG won't make it lose any quality (since PNG is lossless), the resulting PNG of the same quality as AVIF is a several times larger file (4 or even more times) without any PNG benefits. You can't unfuck it back into original PNG quality, since AVIF compression is lossy and the original quality is already gone.

Re-compressing AVIF into a JPG is even worse, since it's also a lossy format, just different kind of lossy and you will lose even more of image quality, altough the file size may not be much larger than the downloaded AVIF.

Much better idea would be to keep them in AVIF format as they are and add AVIF support to your OS instead.

Linux should be supported already (unless you haven't installed AVIF libs from the official repository of your distribution).

And this should help with Windows PC's and Macs:
https://f95zone.to/threads/feedback-wanted-forum-images-attachments-speed.236244/post-16013298
 
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Pillock

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Nov 23, 2019
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Converting an image into PNG or JPG that is already converted into AVIF from PNG or JPG may not be the best idea.

While converting an AVIF into a PNG won't make it lose any quality (since PNG is lossless), the resulting PNG of the same quality as AVIF is a several times larger file (4 or even more times) without any PNG benefits. You can't unfuck it back into original PNG quality, since AVIF compression is lossy and the original quality is already gone.

Re-compressing AVIF into a JPG is even worse, since it's also a lossy format, just different kind of lossy and you will lose even more of image quality, altough the file size may not be much larger than the downloaded AVIF.

Much better idea would be to keep them in AVIF format as they are and add AVIF support to your OS instead.

Linux should be supported already (unless you haven't installed AVIF libs from the official repository of your distribution).

And this should help with Windows PC's and Macs:
https://f95zone.to/threads/feedback-wanted-forum-images-attachments-speed.236244/post-16013298
OK, support added, funny if I save the image as jpg or png, whatever it comes up as, it won't load into photoshop but it will load in windows, if I save it as avif it loads into Photoshop. My brain turns to mush, when I try to understand all this. Sadly the viewer I like to use ACDSEE pro 9 doesn't have support for avif.

I think I'll stick to using the Chrome plugin, it works across everything I have installed, I don't need new versions of software that don't currently support it. I'm not a professional artist, where compression and lossless quality is everything, I create porn in Daz, fan art.
 
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