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Reported Problem for South Park: Freemium Isn't Free
posted by BudsieBudsSTAFFMOD on November 10, 2014 at 2:20 PM
Item: South Park: Freemium Isn't Free
Language: en
Type of Problem: Bad_image
Extra Details: Please delete the episode images uploaded by CouchTater. They're all double, but I compared both and the quality of mine is slightly higher; no jpeg artifacts etc.
Reply by BudsieBuds
on November 10, 2014 at 5:45 PM
Yes, it is. I'm trying to upload the best quality images for this database. That's what we're going for, right? At least it's what I'm trying my best for.
The difference becomes noticable when the image is viewed on an ultra HD screen, especially with images of animated shows like this one.
So please, if you don't want to spend your time on this, leave it open for someone who will.
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM
I think if we have a better source, we should always choose that one for an original. Obviously though, there can be reasonable sacrifices… what I mean specifically is, BudsieBuds, your high res stuff is amazing but I'm wondering if you could get away with dropping from 100% to ~90% and still get very good results for these 4k images? In Photoshop the 90% JPEG is basically not distinguishable would you agree? It's weird, I can't seem to find a sweet spot in Pixelmator without just going to 99%.
Here's some samples of what I am talking about.
Photoshop CC 2014
Pixelmator
Interesting comparison because you got me thinking about WebP (these will only work in Chrome), here's the same exports:
WebP is useless for us right now, I just thought it would be an interesting comparison.
Reply by BudsieBuds
on November 16, 2014 at 10:20 AM
I kind of agree, but for me the sweet spot is always at 100%. Certainly for still images. If I view a still 4K image on an UHD TV, everything is visible. You can for example see all JPEG artifacts. I'll look in too how I can make the file size smaller without losing quality. I'm using GIMP for my image editing needs, and I think it's not that efficient when saving JPEG. Any tips?
Reply by Travis Bell
on November 17, 2014 at 9:02 AM
I'm not sure about Gimp, because I suspect a lot of the same open source technology behind Pixelmator is probably the same being used in Gimp.
Interesting that even Photoshop's 100% quality export is 2MB smaller though, goes to show you that there's a reason it still costs money ;)
Does Gimp have any JPEG quality settings?
Reply by BudsieBuds
on November 19, 2014 at 2:33 PM
Yeah, I can adjust the quality. But I'd much rather output full quality and somehow shrink the filesize without losing quality. It seems possible if Photoshop exports them at 2MB less.