Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-22 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:20:48 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that custom tables seems very confusing -- it sounds like the user's going to be asked to input something she knows nothing about. One could argue that Use existing image

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-15 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:36:05 +0200, Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:10:30 -0400, Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would Use existing image quality settings be a better name for this? I considered naming this option Use original quality settings, but

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-15 Thread Robert L Krawitz
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:25:54 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFwaGHDq2w=?= Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:36:05 +0200, Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:10:30 -0400, Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would Use existing image

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-15 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that custom tables seems very confusing -- it sounds like the user's going to be asked to input something she knows nothing about. One could argue that Use existing image quality settings means the same thing as Use quality settings

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi Raphael, On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 23:44 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: Since Friday, I added a new option to the JPEG save dialog: Use custom quality settings. If some quantization tables were attached to the image when it was loaded, then this option allows you to use them instead of the

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:22:58 +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 23:44 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: Since Friday, I added a new option to the JPEG save dialog: Use custom quality settings. If some quantization tables were attached to the image when it was

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
Why don't add such a wonderful floating tip with a short description of the switch and not to revoke the possibility from a user? Raphaël Quinet wrote: I think that this option is still useful. Maybe not for disabling it when it is enabled, but for enabling it when it is not enabled

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:16:15 +0300, Alexander Rabtchevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't add such a wonderful floating tip with a short description of the switch and not to revoke the possibility from a user? This is already done. There is a tooltip associated with that option and it

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
Raphaël, I would object to removal of DCT method settings switch. Make a simple but clear test case - open any file from RAW and save it with 100% quality, 1x1,1x1,1x1 subsampling and integer vs float DCT method. Then open two resulted files as 2 layers, subtract, flatten and look at the

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Robert L Krawitz
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:08:27 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFwaGHDq2w=?= Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:22:58 +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 23:44 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: Since Friday, I added a new option to the JPEG save

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 11:25 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: [...] - the smoothing option because this can also be performed by the usual blur filters. Actually no, I don't think it can :-) The smoothing seems to reduce jpeg artifacts quite noticeably; it appears as if it's done after

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 13:36 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: [...] Considering that the quantization tables attached to an image would not always be the original ones, I decided to write custom instead of original for the label of that option. It is not perfect, but I have not been able to