[Courses] [gimp] Exporting and image formats

[Julie Sloan]

Carol Spears wrote:
> 
>> *.gif: GIF is an older format which has roughly the same use as PNG. It
>> has better support than PNG in old web browsers, but was patented for a
>> long time and may still be in some countries. Because it was actually
>> illegal for software to produce GIF files without paying royalties,
>> there was a big push a while back for Free Software users to adopt PNG
>> instead. The PNG format is also meant to be technically superior, but I
>> don't know exactly why.
>>
> 


**obediently trots off to replace gifs with pngs**

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