Re: [Gimp-user] optimizing image for internet using GiMP

2001-04-06 Thread Rick Rosinski
What would happen to a jpeg image if I open it up and save it at 75% quality. Reopen the image and save it again at 75%? Would there be loss to quality? Seems like it would. Once I opened a picture I saved at 75% before and saved it at 100%. The file size increased. I don't understand

Re: [Gimp-user] optimizing image for internet using GiMP

2001-04-06 Thread Teri A. Ward
Hi Rick - Can't answer most of your questions, but I do have one suggestion. When dealing with existing jpegs, or graphics that you work with in Gimp and then convert to jpegs, save a "master" copy (as RGB) in .xcf, Gimp's native format. This way you preserve all of the original quality. Then if

Re: [Gimp-user] optimizing image for internet using GiMP

2001-04-04 Thread Rupert Heesom
On 03 Apr 2001 21:53:18 -0700, Jeff Trefftzs wrote: You can reduce the image size with Image-Scale Image; you can reduce the number of colors with Image-Mode-Indexed, which allows you to set the number of colors (up to 256, I believe), specify dithering, etc. Or, you can save the image as