OK, well that's a terminology thing. I meant export. Why would you keep exporting it to a JPEG? I was saying what you're saying; if you're opening/importing a JPEG with the intention of editing it and exporting it, it only makes sense to save a lossless (probably XCF) before you get started. The criticism of ctrl-E writing to the original file seems to be that you'll lose the quality of the original JPEG, but if you're doing that without having first saved a lossless copy, your workflow is... probably flawed. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 30/06/2011 14:09, Alexia Death wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Jeremy Morton<admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Also I would imagine any sensible user would always save a lossless version >> of a lossy-format image before editing it and saving. > Why would I save it lossless somewhere BEFORE editing a file Ive > imported from a JPG? The loss has already happened, I can always get > the exactly same quality for this particular file from the JPG. After > editing the only sane format to SAVE to is xcf. Not only is it > lossless, you wont lose any of the layers/objects you have made in the > process. > >> If you're directly >> opening a JPEG for editing and then lossy-saving it somewhere else, what are >> you thinking?! You're going to keep losing quality. > You dont SAVE to lossy format. You export. Save is to xcf - the only > sane starting point for future editing. > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
