OT: Jpeg Q

2003-10-04 Thread cbwaters
Am I remembering right that JPEG format files re-compress each time they are saved? In other words, saving the image on your CF card as a JPEG and then transferring to the PC would be two steps of loss? Cory --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www

Re: Jpeg Q

2003-10-04 Thread Herb Chong
copying or moving files around between drives doesn't open the files for editing. Herb - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:34 PM Subject: OT: Jpeg Q > Am I remembering right that JPEG form

Re: Jpeg Q

2003-10-04 Thread Bill Owens
- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:34 PM Subject: OT: Jpeg Q > Am I remembering right that JPEG format files re-compress each time they are > saved? In other words, saving the image on your CF card as a JPEG and then > transfe

Re: Jpeg Q

2003-10-04 Thread cbwaters
Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks Guys. CW - Original Message - From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:50 PM Subject: Re: Jpeg Q > I would think that there would be no quality loss in this situation.

Re: Jpeg Q

2003-10-05 Thread Cotty
On 4/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >I would think that there would be no quality loss in this situation. You >are not opening and resaving the file, simply transferring from one place to >another. My understanding is that you only start losing quality when you >open, edit, then resave the

Re: Jpeg Q

2003-10-05 Thread Cotty
Resending cuz something weird happened to the subject line before On 5/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >I'm not yet an accomplished Photoshop person, and looking in my >Photoshop 5 manual, I don't see "optimizing." >What it is, please? >I know of file name optimizing. Is that it? >Or, mo

Re: OT: Jpeg Q

2003-10-04 Thread John Francis
> > Am I remembering right that JPEG format files re-compress each time they are > saved? In other words, saving the image on your CF card as a JPEG and then > transferring to the PC would be two steps of loss? No. Copying a JPEG file is just like copying any other file - lossless. You could g

Re: OT: Jpeg Q

2003-10-04 Thread Peter Alling
If you change the image or change the compression settings they will. However if you simply open an image and re-save it without changes the "new" file should be identical to the "old" one, at least if the package you are using follows the standard. Simply copying a file should, baring accident

Re: OT: Jpeg Q

2003-10-05 Thread graywolf
Copying does not change the file. Openning it and saving it again does. So anytime you try to edit the file you lose data. In other words if you are never going to edit (that includes resizing) the file jpegs are fine. The only problem with that is if you are not going to edit your photos, why

Re: OT: Jpeg Q

2003-10-05 Thread Bill Owens
additional copy later, I may save it as a tif or psd file. Bill - Original Message - From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 12:06 PM Subject: Re: OT: Jpeg Q > Copying does not change the file. Openning it and s

Re: OT: Jpeg Q

2003-10-07 Thread Lon Williamson
If you open a jpeg in a photo editing program and save it as some other file format (tiff comes to mind), you avoid any further "jpegulation" damage. Very easy to avoid. graywolf wrote: Copying does not change the file. Openning it and saving it again does. So anytime you try to edit the file you