Gimp Exporting Quality Problem?

[J-Lord]

Hey guys!! Latley I have been doing all my GFX work on Paint.net, but swapped to GIMP for its wade variety of brush styles. But whenever I try to export an image into Jpeg or Gif the image quality suffers. It goes from a good quality image to a fuzzy image which ruins the hole purpose of swapping GFX programs to do high quality GFX. Am I doing something wrong or is this how the program is?

Edit:

Heres a picture of both original file that was created in GIMP(bottom) and exported file, and by exported I mean saved into Jpeg format (top).

I know it doesn't seem like much in this pic but its more noticable with the real thing.

[Jªvª]

Its kinda of both, yes its how the program itself is at the same time it can be how you save it.

Quality is a no brainer, but the other options can make a difference. Usually if your going for quality over compression. I deselect optimize, 1x1,1x1,1x1 SubSampling, and Floating Point under DCT. Saying all this, yeah def going to be a decently sized picture. Alot of Gimp users on windows (the ones I talk to) still utilize Adobe Photoshop for its export to web option

[Hōtarō]

Jpeg is a low quality file type. Save it as a png.

[Jªvª]

I would agree. But how gimp saves png files; they are usually memory consuming and a web hosts nightmare.

[Xanodus]

Jpg isn't as high of a quality as a png image. I always save my images/sigs/avatars and everythign else with a .png extension. try saving it as a png.

[J-Lord]

Cheers guys, looks much better!! Can put this one down as solved!