Saving Files

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SkyPilot
Apr 18, 2005
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Let’s say you have a picture file that is 1meg. You do what you need to do with it n PS and then go to Save or Save As. Is there any benefit in saving the file to a larger size (Quality)?

Tks

Brian

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Xalinai
Apr 18, 2005
SkyPilot wrote:

Let’s say you have a picture file that is 1meg. You do what you need to do with it n PS and then go to Save or Save As. Is there any benefit in saving the file to a larger size (Quality)?
Tks

Brian

You leave a lot to guessing.
As you are talking about image quality settings you must be talking about lossy compression – JPG images?

A 1 MB filesize says very little about the image size when talking about JPGs. It could be an almost uncompressed 800×600 pixel image or a brutally squeezed 4000×6000 pixel collection of JPG artifacts.

I assume you meant to ask the following question:

Is there any benefit if you save a JPEG image with higher quality settings after editing?

You will lose some information of your edits and you will lose some more information from the original image when the compression is applied in saving the image as JPEG.

Using high quality settings, this can be minimized but never avoided.

Michael
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Apr 19, 2005
"SkyPilot" wrote in message
: Let’s say you have a picture file that is 1meg. You do what you need to do
: with it n PS and then go to Save or Save As. Is there any benefit in saving
: the file to a larger size (Quality)?
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: Tks
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: Brian
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This is an answer but you would be a lot better off enlarging the file before you edit it.
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SkyPilot
Apr 20, 2005
"Xalinai" pounded on the keyboard and wrote:

SkyPilot wrote:

Let’s say you have a picture file that is 1meg. You do what you need to do with it n PS and then go to Save or Save As. Is there any benefit in saving the file to a larger size (Quality)?
Tks

Brian

You leave a lot to guessing.
As you are talking about image quality settings you must be talking about lossy compression – JPG images?

A 1 MB filesize says very little about the image size when talking about JPGs. It could be an almost uncompressed 800×600 pixel image or a brutally squeezed 4000×6000 pixel collection of JPG artifacts.
I assume you meant to ask the following question:

Is there any benefit if you save a JPEG image with higher quality settings after editing?

You will lose some information of your edits and you will lose some more information from the original image when the compression is applied in saving the image as JPEG.

Using high quality settings, this can be minimized but never avoided.
Michael
Michael,

I think I understand but perhaps I should have been more specific. I used 1meg just for ease because it was a round number.

OK, I have my camera set on Large | Fine (jpg) and that creates a file =>
1.6mb with the dimensions of 2240 X 1488. In Photoshop I might adjust the
highlights and shadows and maybe sharpen. I do not change the size at all unless I am going to e-mail them or put them on my web site.

Tks

Brian

———————————————————— —————– Brian J. Rueger | Hampton Div. of Fire & Rescue | "Who dares wins" Lt./Paramedic | Fire Communications Officer | Hampton, VA.
B.S. Comm/I/SEL Pilot | MSgt, USAF (Ret.) 49199 | NREMT-P
Check out my home page: http://members.cox.net/brueger
Some of my photography: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/34185.html "Life’s too short to drink LITE beer!"
———————————————————— —————–
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Kangas
Apr 20, 2005
It realy depends on what you want to do with it.

If you just want to email it you could use a lower quality setting smaller file size )

If you want to print it out or use it in a brochure etc keep it as larger size ( high quality )

I would not even resave it as a jpg, but as a tiff or psd and don introduce further losses.

Hope this helps, feel free to ask for more help if needed

kanga


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SkyPilot
Apr 22, 2005
Kangas pounded on the keyboard and wrote:

It realy depends on what you want to do with it.

If you just want to email it you could use a lower quality setting ( smaller file size )

If you want to print it out or use it in a brochure etc keep it as a larger size ( high quality )

I would not even resave it as a jpg, but as a tiff or psd and dont introduce further losses.

Hope this helps, feel free to ask for more help if needed
kangas

Thanks for all the help.

Wish I had seen this earlier. Just finished scanning nearly 300 35mm slides………….

Later

Brian

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B.S. Comm/I/SEL Pilot | MSgt, USAF (Ret.) 49199 | NREMT-P
Check out my home page: http://members.cox.net/brueger
Some of my photography: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/34185.html "Life’s too short to drink LITE beer!"
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