John Coppens wrote:
On Sat, 30 May 2009 08:00:05 -0700 (PDT)
James Cobban <[email protected]> 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
Thank you to everyone for all the input. This has been a useful
learning experience.
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Jim Cobban [email protected]
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Kanata, ON, CANADA
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