[Gimp-user] resize image, loss of quality / successive saves

[Øyvind Kolås]

On Jan 17, 2008 7:15 PM, Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote:
> Eventually, successive saves in jpg will cause a degradation of quality, that's why it is best to work in xcf

To be pedantic; and perhaps clarify slightly. Successive save to JPEG
is completely OK, successive save/load cycles are not. GIMP does not
degrade the currently edited image by doing a save to JPEG, thus if
all the work in scaling down and saving to JPEG is done in a single
session without opening any of the saved JPEGs you are not losing any
quality
at each save step.

/Øyvind K.

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