JPG Compression

[Admin]

jpg compression

Up to what ratio do you normally use to compress your JPGs before losing significant quality?

[krakyn]

I did not realize you lost quality on a picture when you compressed it then decompressed it.  Why does that happen?

[Admin]

Basically the image appears more blurred or distorted the more you compress it. Compression is for faster loading pages.

[krakyn]

That makes sense I was thinking more like a winzip then send the file to some one and that it was corrupted in the process.  Thank you for that clarification.

[Admin]

Oh well if you are sending a file for later reproduction then it is best to send it uncompressed. If you are creating it for the web then you definitely have to compress it or people can be waiting a very long time to see your images, especially if they are in a remote area that only has dialup.

[krakyn]

Thanks for the tip I will keep that in mind.  Lately I have been burning dvds and mailing them to my family. 

[Admin]

You can use rar compression to keep images together in a smaller state without actually affecting the image itself if you are looking to distribute.

[krakyn]

I will have to try that as memory is everything.