Re: [Gimp-user] New User Need Help Enlarging/Enhancing Image

[Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke floss gmail com>]

On 2018-08-13 15:43, Ofnuts wrote:
> On 08/13/18 20:31, Matthew Woehlke via gimp-user-list wrote:
> > Also, make sure you save the result at least as a JPEG with 98% to 100%
> > quality, if not PNG.
>
> I second the idea to hide the defects with some heavy "artistic"
> filtering, but 98% quality? Totally unnecessary. On rathre expensive
> Canon DSLRs, the "fine" JPEG quality is 97%. Going above that add a lot
> to file size without adding much in actual quality. After a heavy
> filter, 90% would be enough.

Maybe I am overly paranoid because I have seen so many images with
really terrible JPEG artifacts. Still, for high resolution print, I
personally would tend toward the paranoid side; disk space is cheap
these days and we're not talking about GB's...

I seem to recall reading somewhere that around 95-98% you basically
cannot tell the difference vs. lossless.

-- 
Matthew