Re: [Gimp-user] Installing new script ?

["Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg tristatelogic com>]

In message <4F0B705B 2070905 pilobilus net>,
Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net> wrote:

> On 01/09/2012 05:15 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> > I did that, and actually, yes, the specific image I'm working with seems to
> > have benefitted from having the defringer run on it twice.  Here's the image
> > after ONE and then TWO defringing steps:
> >
> >      ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/gimp/squirrel-c.jpg
> >      ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/gimp/squirrel-d.jpg
>
> As a general rule, it's not a good idea to edit, save, open, and
> re-edit a .jpg image.  The .jpg format is a "lossy" compressed
> format...

Yea yea.  I know.

If I was doing this professionally, or for publication, then I would have
been more careful and saved the intermediate result as a .XCF file.  But
I'm just messing around here, trying to see what this whiz-bang purple
de-fringer can really do.  And so far, I'm pretty damned impressed.  It
really does a nice job... even better if you run it twice.


Regards,
rfg