Moose said:
I've put up a web photo gallery of shots in my front yard over the last
few weeks at <http://www.geocities.com/dreammoose/garden/index.htm>...
and Garth replied:
... experimenting with image compression can sometimes yield fabulous
results in a fairly compact image size, depending on the image....
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Also, I discovered, quite by accident, that cleaning grain out of images
with "Neat Image" can significantly reduce the size of the image. It
makes perfect sense (now that I think about it which I didn't before)
that getting rid of random noise will improve the compression ratio.
I was talking to a friend at lunch about the merits of Neat Image and
promised to send him comparative before and after JPEG's. I had taken
some shots of my dining room which had scanned on my 2720s as
particularly ugly for grain. I cleaned the grain with Neat Image and
snipped out a 640x400 full resolution segment of both the before and
after images and saved them as JPEG's. I was very surprised to see that
the "before" image was 86 KB and the "after" image was 76 KB.
To be sure, the two images are not critically pixel aligned but are
pretty close. The cleaned image is not only smaller but looks very much
better.
Contact me off list if you'd like to see what they look like.
ps: Great shots Moose! I especially like "Red Grass With Web", "Poker
Starts Getting Red Hot" and "Aggie Opens"
Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
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