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your stance on image compression and/ or avif/jxl? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Do you have a general stance about it?

Once every couple of months I look into the state of both projects and it's slow but steadily progressing.

I am mainly looking into it because of the file compression. My tests showed that I can save up to 70% in disk space for a jpg image without losing too much information for both formats, avif and jxl. It depends on the images but in general it's astonishing and I wonder why I still save jpgs in 100% quality.

But, I could also just save or convert my whole library to 70% jpg compression. Any advice?

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[+] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think they were saying that they could save space by converting their existing jpg files to avif or jpgXL, ~~not converting to a 70% quality jpg~~. JpgXL can do this losslessly so there's no drawback there, but converting to avif would be a lossy to lossy transcode.

EDIT: I completely missed OP's last paragraph, which does say they are considering converting their existing jpg files into 70% jpgs.

[–] lascapi@jlai.lu 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

With a 70% quality jpg, you lose the ability to crop, edit or blow up your images. It basically limits you to looking at them on a screen.

I don't understand what you mean! 🧐

If I have a 70% quality jpeg, I can open it in Gimp and crop, edit or blow up (a bit) the image.