Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread Jon Glass
On Nov 30, 2004, at 1:17 AM, William Robb wrote: Ummm, I think the point is that if you need to edit the jpeg, you should be saving it as something that isn't compressed, rather than recompressing it. Correct. Each time you save a jpeg, you are re-compressing it, thereby losing more and more da

Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread Doug Franklin
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:17:45 -0600, William Robb wrote: > Ummm, I think the point is that if you need to edit the jpeg, you > should be saving it as something that isn't compressed, rather than > recompressing it. That's true if you're using lossy compression like JPEG. If you're using lossles

Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Powell Hargrave" Subject: Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG At 09:46 AM 29/11/2004 , Jon Glass wrote: Yeah, that's what I do. When I open a JPEG out of my camera, in Photoshop, the first thing I do is save it as a TIFF. All this does is mak

Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread Jon Glass
On Nov 29, 2004, at 8:28 PM, Powell Hargrave wrote: All this does is make the file much larger. Saving as tif or psd makes sense for images which you edit but the if the original is a jpg archive that. Don't edit the original jpg and re-save it. Right, but I'm also not opening an image in PS un

Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread Powell Hargrave
At 09:46 AM 29/11/2004 , Jon Glass wrote: >Yeah, that's what I do. When I open a JPEG out of my camera, in >Photoshop, the first thing I do is save it as a TIFF. All this does is make the file much larger. Saving as tif or psd makes sense for images which you edit but the if the original is a

Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread Jon Glass
On Nov 29, 2004, at 3:45 PM, William Robb wrote: Sixteen bit TIFF anyone? Seems to work Yeah, that's what I do. When I open a JPEG out of my camera, in Photoshop, the first thing I do is save it as a TIFF. From there, I keep it until I save a copy for printing, and that's when I do sharpenin

Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Peter J. Alling" Subject: Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG PNG format is quite interesting, but not IMHO for saving image files. Displaying them maybe but not saving them. PNG was primarily designed to replace GIF and does an admirable j

Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread Peter J. Alling
PNG format is quite interesting, but not IMHO for saving image files. Displaying them maybe but not saving them. PNG was primarily designed to replace GIF and does an admirable job of that. Anyone who wants to get really geeky can read all about PNG here: http://www.libpng.org/ Jerry in Housto

Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread Keith Whaley
Jerry in Houston wrote: http://0utpatient.home.comcast.net/noartifacts/ My son pointed out this format for saving image files. I thought it was very interesting. Jerry in Houston An interesting expose! However, as with most image manipulation schemes, an image format such as .png is useful on

Re: An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Jolly
Jerry in Houston wrote: http://0utpatient.home.comcast.net/noartifacts/ My son pointed out this format for saving image files. I thought it was very interesting. I think that article misses the point - JPEG was not designed for images with large areas of monotonous colour and sharp edges, it w

An Alternative to JPEG...:PNG

2004-11-29 Thread Jerry in Houston
http://0utpatient.home.comcast.net/noartifacts/ My son pointed out this format for saving image files. I thought it was very interesting. Jerry in Houston