> Trying to be more specific: If I open an image from my digital camera > with gimp, adjusts its levels or curves, and re-save it, the saved image > is very deteriorated. If I do the same with Photoshop that doesn't happen. > I think it's problem, but let me know if I'm wrong. At least I know that > I must re-save images from other sources using a higher quality factor. Interesting, what platform are you using? Here if I can do say 10 re-saves at 85% quality, it produces no discernible changes in picture quality. In fact I have tried to prove that recompressing jpg pictures reduces the picture quality and got bored doing it at 85% (which btw is the Gimp default) However I could degrade quality by repeatedly saving at some lower quality, like 50% Opinion. Y You should never work on a jpeg, take it in off your camera, save it as an xcf and when finished, recreate it as a jpeg if you want. Owen _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
