Certainly. Like I said a lossy format is suitable for websites. But say for example you were creating some fantastic surreal image that you hoped to sell as prints. You would never save it as a jpeg or other lossy format. But you would make a smaller jpeg copy for posting to the web. The fact that Nearly all textures available for Poser are jpegs is generally to keep the download size small. But I would prefer them to be Tiff's or TGA's. Especially since I have DSL. I couldn't careless about the download size of the item.