JPEGmini
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Looking at Photoshop export options I noticed JPEG2000. Did some research on this to see it's advantages when I discovered this...
It basically crunches file sizes of .jpg but no loss in quality. It's a free service that requires registration. I passed some rendered images through JPEGmini and it worked a treat.
The strange part of this ramble is what I discovered about PhotoShop. Users will be familiar with the .jpg settings when saving. You can basically lower or raise the quality of the image therefore saving on file size. You choose between 1 and 12 (this reminds me of Spinal Tap's guitarist) but what is interesting about these numbers is that beyond 6, Adobe has to reduce quality before being able to apply further color adjustments which bloat file size rapidly.
It's setting to 11 or 12 that yields crazy file sizes. These are apparently experimental settings the reason they've being assigned past 10. So, in essence either save at 6, 9 or 10. Never 7, 11 or 12.
If you've read this far you deserve a medal
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Is this in all versions of Photoshop?
I always save at 10 for the final pix. I do some compressing when I may post something to the web. I will keep this in mind next time I do.
What kinda medal do I get????
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@unknownuser said:
...If you've read this far you deserve a medal
I have and still have no clue what you are about. Still get a medal?
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In plain english....
Grab an image from your PC a pass it through JPEGmini and notice the reduction in size. It's using some voodoo that compresses the size but not the quality. Newer JPEG formats, like jpg2000, do great compression but aren't widely used yet. Hence my ramble on PhotoShop.
What medal do ye get? The 'I have no life either' medal, though Csaba's got a fistful already!
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If you're interested in smaller sizes:
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Can I cash my 'I have no life either' medal in for cash so I can buy a life?
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