On Sat, 30 May 2009 08:00:05 -0700 (PDT) James Cobban <jamescob...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> When I got home I used GIMP to extract the individual images into > JPEGs. Unexpectedly the JPEGs are enormous! For example one of the > TIFF files that was 5MB in total, containing 5 images remember, > exported into JPEGs which ranged from 9.0MB to 9.6MB! That is using > the default 85% quality. Note that in some cases, lossless compression can give you much better results than jpg. Particularly if the original is a complicated line drawing (high contrast). Also, if the original is using indexed colors, it may be more efficient. And if the original is a b/w 1 bit/pixel image, even more so. Try to convert to PNG or GIF and check if those formats give you more logical sizes - they work better with the mentioned image types. John _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
