oi Harry, On January 31, 2011 08:58:39 am Harry van der Wolf wrote: > I noticed that you set it to 90% quality. Why?
I intended to write an email this morning while committing, but time was short. My intention was to go for 80. Or even 79. The reason is: On January 31, 2011 05:00:58 am kfj wrote: > I usually save to TIFF and only compress to JPEG if I must. JPEG is chosen for compression, not for quality. The default value should be the one that yields optimal compression, not the optimal quality; and as so often in nature, the 80-20 rule applies. > I know that I could have set it to 95% myself at any time, even now, but > I'd like to hear (read) your opinion. The default is a signal. Getting to close to 100 gives the (wrong) impression that there are no losses. The signal that the user sees is the file size of TIFF / PNG vs. JPEG; and the JPEG "quality" number. By polling opinion I in no way intended this to be a mathematical average of sort. I ended up choosing a reasonably low value, without going too low. If there are hard feelings / preferences for the one or other value, feel free to change the default in src/hugin1/hugin/config_defaults.h And of course users can always change the value in the preferences. Yuv
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