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- From: hee@cs.columbia.edu (Edward Hee)
- Subject: Re: JPEG "Standard"
- Message-ID: <C0K6wD.MH1@cs.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
- Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1ijc1tINN14h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1ijc59INN155@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <C0JzJJ.Hup.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:36:13 GMT
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- In article <C0JzJJ.Hup.2@cs.cmu.edu> tgl+@cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
- >
- >I'm guessing that you proceeded by loading and displaying the image, then
- >using "Save". This is a bad move since both programs will quantize the
- >24-bit image down to 8 bits for display (assuming your display hardware is 8
- >bits). JPEG is intended for compressing 24-bit data, not 8-bit; your JPEG
- >files are larger and of lower quality than they would be if you had made
- >them directly from the Targa or BMP file.
- ...
- >The difference in file size is due to Colorview and WinJPEG using different
- >quantization algorithms; hence the data fed to the JPEG compressor is not
- >the same. In particular, I'd bet you had dithering turned off in ColorView.
- ...
- >
- > regards, tom lane
- >
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- This is incorrect.
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- ColorView uses the best available image format for saving. If the original
- image was 24 bits, the save JPEG option will write from the original 24 bit
- source, even if an 8 bit quantized version was created for display.
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- In fact, ColorView uses the 8 bit image only when absolutely necessary,
- eg. for an 8-bit display, or for writing an 8 bit image such as GIF, or
- 8 bit BMP. All other processing is pefrformed on the original 24 bit image
- for the highest output quality.
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- This is the main reason the image saved with ColorView is smaller.
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- Dithering adds a lot of noise to an image. The file written by WinJPEG is
- bigger because it contains a lot of extraneous dithering information not
- necessary for writing the 24 bit JPEG.
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- As far as batch conversions of image files, ColorView version 2.1 is in beta
- test and will be released in a few days. The new features include batch
- conversion from GIF/BMP/JPEG to any of the supported formats. The conversion
- utility operates completely in the text mode, and does not require a VGA/SVGA
- card, or a VESA driver.
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- (NOTE: this message is from the authors of ColorView and not from the
- owner of this account)
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