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- From: kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu (Kijin Jung)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: JPEG "Standard"
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 07:59:35 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu (Kijin Jung)
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-
- I was concerned about the standardization of JPEG
- between two programs I have, so I did some tests.
-
- The original file was a 24-bit true-color file of
- size 768 x 768 at 300 dpi, scanned into PhotoStyler.
- I saved the file in two formats: 24-bit Targa and
- 24-bit BMP.
-
- To ensure that both files had the same color
- information, I checked the number of unique colors
- using Paint Shop Pro. Both TGA and BMP files reported
- having 167510 colors.
-
- Then I compressed them using ColorView 2.0 for DOS
- and WinJPEG 1.6. (The reason why I used a quality of
- 74 and 76 for Colorview was because it did not
- offer 75 as an option; so I also used those settings
- for WinJPEG.) Also, Cview only accepts BMP files.
-
- Original Software Quality Entropy File
- File Used Setting Optmztn Size
- ------------------------------------------------
- TGA WinJPEG 75 Yes 135909
- BMP WinJPEG 75 Yes 136256
-
- BMP Cview 74 N/A 81795
- BMP Cview 76 N/A 84487
-
- TGA WinJPEG 74 Yes 133183
- BMP WinJPEG 74 Yes 133519
-
- TGA WinJPEG 76 Yes 141489
- BMP WinJPEG 76 Yes 141800
-
- TGA WinJPEG 74 No 143693
- BMP WinJPEG 74 No 143693
-
-
- I am very confused by WinJPEG's method of saving JPG's.
- WinJPEG takes two original files of the same content but
- different format, yet outputs JPEG files of different sizes
- (with entropy optimization on).
-
- Cview's JPEG output is much smaller than those of WinJPEG
- for a given Quality.
-
- My questions are:
-
- Which program adheres closer to the Quality settings
- described in the JPEG FAQ?
-
- Exactly what is entropy optimization and how does it affect
- the quality of the compressed image? (Should it be used if
- I want a "standard" Q75 JPEG file?)
-
- And for those who have PhotoStyler 1.1a: how does the
- quality range in the JPEG export module translate to the
- quality range described in the FAQ? (PhotoStyler uses
- a range from 0 to 100, with 0 being minimal compression,
- 100 maximum - just the opposite of convention). What
- the heck is the difference between YUV422 and YUV411
- SubSampling?
-
- Sorry to ask so many questions, I'm just very confused.
- Thanks for any info.
-
- -Kijin
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