Re: [Gimp-developer] JPEG lossless operations?

2012-05-30 Thread Bruce
I've read that Picasa (Google's program) might be able to perform lossless
rotations, but I'm just going by what I've read.
(Sourcehttp://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/picasa/UsZVs63loDM
)

Apparently there are ways to test if the tool you use makes use of lossless
rotation. This page lists some:
http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/lossless-rotation-test.html

This page also has a nice explanation of lossless rotation and its finer
nuances:
http://www.betterjpeg.com/lossless-rotation.htm

From what I've learned so far, I think in the end you just have to relax
about all this stuff and not worry about it too much, though it does help
to know what's happening when you do certain things (such as rotate a
jpeg).

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 5:31 AM, gfxuser gfx.u...@online.de wrote:

 Ofnuts wrote:

 On 05/27/2012 08:26 PM, gfxuser wrote:

 Hi,

 reading some of the JPEG related articles here I wondered whether GIMP
 or GEGL can do lossless rotation and cropping on JPEG images. Can you tell
 me more about it?

 Thanks,
 grafxuser


 For rotation, that would only work on images with dimensions that are a
 multiple of 8. For cropping, that only works if you crop on 8-pixel
 boundaries from the origin corner.

 Otherwise, this also assumes that JPEG is an editable format, while the
 recent kerfuffle around the Export function has demonstrated that it is
 not, in the current vision.

  Thanks, Ofnuts.
 Yes, 'Export vs. Save' was a long discussion and I don't want to boost it
 again. Although it takes a little getting used to I can live with the new
 behaviour. Despite of that I sometimes wondered in the past whether GIMP
 will introduce new compression artifacts if I rotated or cropped an
 existing JPEG image (yes, there are some cameras where saving in JPEG of
 sufficient quality is the best choice. Shall we not use them anymore?).

 Best regards,

 grafxuser

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Re: [Gimp-developer] JPEG lossless operations?

2012-05-30 Thread Ofnuts

On 05/30/2012 05:55 PM, Bruce wrote:
I've read that Picasa (Google's program) might be able to perform 
lossless rotations, but I'm just going by what I've read. (Source 
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#%21topic/picasa/UsZVs63loDM)


Apparently there are ways to test if the tool you use makes use of 
lossless rotation. This page lists some: 
http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/lossless-rotation-test.html


This page also has a nice explanation of lossless rotation and its 
finer nuances:

http://www.betterjpeg.com/lossless-rotation.htm

From what I've learned so far, I think in the end you just have to 
relax about all this stuff and not worry about it too much, though it 
does help to know what's happening when you do certain things (such as 
rotate a jpeg).




The best (and fastest) way to rotate a JPEG is to change its 
orientation flag...




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Re: [Gimp-developer] JPEG lossless operations?

2012-05-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 01:04 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:

 The best (and fastest) way to rotate a JPEG is to change its 
 orientation flag...

Not all programs honour the orientation flag.

Windows Explorer's thumbnails used to be an example, don't know if
that's still true in Windows 7.

Liam

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Re: [Gimp-developer] JPEG lossless operations?

2012-05-27 Thread Ofnuts

On 05/27/2012 08:26 PM, gfxuser wrote:

Hi,

reading some of the JPEG related articles here I wondered whether GIMP 
or GEGL can do lossless rotation and cropping on JPEG images. Can you 
tell me more about it?


Thanks,
grafxuser



For rotation, that would only work on images with dimensions that are a 
multiple of 8. For cropping, that only works if you crop on 8-pixel 
boundaries from the origin corner.


Otherwise, this also assumes that JPEG is an editable format, while 
the recent kerfuffle around the Export function has demonstrated that it 
is not, in the current vision.


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Re: [Gimp-developer] JPEG lossless operations?

2012-05-27 Thread Nicolas Robidoux
For a non GIMP solution (with severe constraints on the rotation and
cropping parameters, as is pretty much unavoidable):
http://jpegclub.org/
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