So recently an article was linked on reddit about a bunch of photography myths. Number 7, called “Saving a JPEG multiple times degrades quality” which was apparently proven to be wrong disturbed me most and so I did a quick test on my own.

Further below are Three images. The Original, the one saved 30 times and an XOR of the first Two showing the differences. If you toggle between the first two you can see quite a difference in the color on the car and several other details. Running any more tests at lower than 100% quality is pretty much a waste of time once you see these results.

There’s probably no simpler way to create a pdf from images. Behold:

convert \*.jpg output.pdf

That’s all folks!

There’s probably no simpler way to create a pdf from images. Behold:

convert \*.jpg output.pdf

That’s all folks!

Update: 2012-10-22

I recently put the scripts I used in a little github repo called starcluster-image-sharpener. It’s nothing big but it’ll get you started if needed. Go get them! ;)

Introduction

First a little context:

I’ve photographed a ton recently and on one occasion I screwed things up a bit and had a lot of slightly out of focus images. I’ve tinkered with the Canon Digital Photo Professional settings to find a good level of sharpening (after noise reduction because a lot was shot at high iso (for me and my 50D, iso 1250 is a lot already)) but wasn’t happy with it. I’ve found reasonable settings for noise reduction, which makes the image a bit softer, but sharpening wouldn’t do anything to compensate let alone actually sharpen.

Update: 2012-10-22

I recently put the scripts I used in a little github repo called starcluster-image-sharpener. It’s nothing big but it’ll get you started if needed. Go get them! ;)

Introduction

First a little context:

I’ve photographed a ton recently and on one occasion I screwed things up a bit and had a lot of slightly out of focus images. I’ve tinkered with the Canon Digital Photo Professional settings to find a good level of sharpening (after noise reduction because a lot was shot at high iso (for me and my 50D, iso 1250 is a lot already)) but wasn’t happy with it. I’ve found reasonable settings for noise reduction, which makes the image a bit softer, but sharpening wouldn’t do anything to compensate let alone actually sharpen.