Stephen writes ... > My assumption was that if I saved a camera .jpg at max in PS > it would be the same as it was originally, just giving you > 100% of what you had in the first place but as mentioned it > is larger so [...]
To save again as JPEG, the algoritm makes no assumptions ... e.g., "what is a JPEG artifact?" ... "which pixel values belong to the original image?" ... so, for HQ compression, less lossy compression is applied without regard to prior JPEG artifacts ... as if it was never a JPEG. cheerios ... shAf :o) Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland www.micro-investigations.com (in progress) =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
