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Dr. Quadragon ❌

@pixelfed uh... You are a photography hosting service. Resizing and especially "optimizing" WILL ruin a painstaikenly-edited photo.

26 May 2022 at 9:03 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.ml
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pixelfed

@drq It really depends, admins can disable resize/optimization btw.

Stripping color profiles can make photos dull, but I wouldn't say that or even resizing would ruin them

26 May 2022 at 9:08 | Open on mastodon.social
Lapineige

@pixelfed
> admins can disable resize/optimization btw.

How can we do that ?

> Stripping color profiles can make photos dull, but I wouldn't say that or even resizing would ruin them

It's not as problematic as stipping color profiles (which indeed often result in a crappy image), but for pictures with fine details, resizing is often worse that compressing more. A Jpeg quality 60-70 is often lighter and sharper than a Jpeg 90 with half the picture size.

@drq

@pixelfed
> admins can disable resize/optimization btw.

How can we do that ?

> Stripping color profiles can make photos dull, but I wouldn't say that or even resizing would ruin them

It's not as problematic as stipping color profiles (which indeed often result in a crappy image), but for pictures with fine details, resizing is often worse that compressing more. A Jpeg quality 60-70 is often lighter and sharper than a Jpeg 90 with half the picture size.

26 May 2022 at 9:21 | Open on mamot.fr
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