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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Your opinion on jpeg encoders, please
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 08:25:02
Message-Id: 20210112082436.362dbc3c@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Your opinion on jpeg encoders, please by Frank Steinmetzger
1 On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:26:26 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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3 > > > You lose some extra quality when doing this due to recompression.
4 > > > What you should do is save in a lossless format (like png or bmp)
5 > > > and then convert that to jpg.
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7 > But that would lose a lot of EXIF stuff in the process. I know that
8 > recompression reduces quality, that’s why I use a very high setting
9 > (98…100) for the intermediate file.
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11 PNG supports EXIF tags, or you could use lossless JPEG.
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