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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: PeterAit on May 19, 2014, 05:59:33 pm

Title: Question about JPGs and quality
Post by: PeterAit on May 19, 2014, 05:59:33 pm
JPGs can be saved at different levels of quality. Is 100% quality compressed without loss? I guess what I am asking is whether using PNG format, with its lossless compression, has any advantages over JPG at 100%.
Title: Re: Question about JPGs and quality
Post by: Schewe on May 19, 2014, 06:12:47 pm
Only JPEG 2000 offers lossless compression. Normal JPEG, even at 100% quality does indeed loose some color data although it's very, very subtle.
Title: Re: Question about JPGs and quality
Post by: jrsforums on May 19, 2014, 06:25:39 pm
JPGs can be saved at different levels of quality. Is 100% quality compressed without loss? I guess what I am asking is whether using PNG format, with its lossless compression, has any advantages over JPG at 100%.

Peter, you might find interest in this....
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/jpeg-quality
Title: Re: Question about JPGs and quality
Post by: sniper on May 20, 2014, 04:30:22 am
You might also find it interesting to try outputting at different qualites. Someone in the studio exported some jpegs at very low quality 2 or 3 If I remember, I then exported some not realising the setting had been changes (yes I know I should have checked) It was only when I looked at the file sizes I realised. Even on a decent size screen it was hard to tell the difference.