JPG vs PNG Last Updated March 2016 You may have hear that images with text should be saved as PNG but if the image has any photographic elements we recommend JPG. PNG is great for lineart. File size is just a limitation of PNG files when the images are photographic instead of lineart. The same image converted to JPEG and uploaded to Drupal compresses to almost 1/8th the size. Example Cordova Quartet Image Original PNG Image: 506K JPEG Version @ 100%: 374K Drupal resized & compressed PNG: 279k Drupal resized & compressed JPEG: 40k Drupal resized & compressed PNG (279k): Drupal resized & compressed JPEG (40k):
