Next Meeting moved to August 15th 2019
Hey Gang, I'm going to move the meeting to August 15th. If you've got a topic idea, let me know. Otherwise, we can either do an open topic meeting. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
doug> I have a topic idea and/OR question-for-list-here+now, but only half a clue; I seek the Grail (our group's collective mind meld) on.... Resizing/cropping images efficiently w/r/t ( a) my time to perform the file manipuation, and (b) efficient+good JPG compression/filesize-shrinking. In my nearly-abandoned Windows-OS world, I had/have an obscure tool ACDSee which I paid $10-20 for, 25 yrs ago ! (still avail for windows only) which.... --- is very easy/quick to use in my opinion --- does an easy image rotation if needed --- does an easy crop-and-save (the main feature for me) --- magically, without asking about quality/compression? DOES COMPRESS Very Well: .... I can crop most images (eg typical smartphone jpg around 4mb for example, ........ I can crop most of it and save with a typical result = 10-20% of original file size = 400-800k ........... and you wouldn't believe how good the 10%-smaller image tends to look. GIMP can do these, except seems to lack the magical quality of ACDSee for a downsize. while doing GIMP's Crop first, then Export to JPG, GIMP Export asks for a QUALITY in the 1-100% range, if I choose 10% I do get a 400k file, but it's grainy as you might expect, and I wonder how ACDSee does such superior compression with barely any loss/grainy result. -------doug
How do PNG files compare? On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 8:05 AM Doug Mildram via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
doug> I have a topic idea and/OR question-for-list-here+now, but only half a clue; I seek the Grail (our group's collective mind meld) on....
Resizing/cropping images efficiently w/r/t ( a) my time to perform the file manipuation, and (b) efficient+good JPG compression/filesize-shrinking.
In my nearly-abandoned Windows-OS world, I had/have an obscure tool ACDSee which I paid $10-20 for, 25 yrs ago ! (still avail for windows only) which....
--- is very easy/quick to use in my opinion --- does an easy image rotation if needed --- does an easy crop-and-save (the main feature for me) --- magically, without asking about quality/compression? DOES COMPRESS Very Well: .... I can crop most images (eg typical smartphone jpg around 4mb for example, ........ I can crop most of it and save with a typical result = 10-20% of original file size = 400-800k ........... and you wouldn't believe how good the 10%-smaller image tends to look.
GIMP can do these, except seems to lack the magical quality of ACDSee for a downsize.
while doing GIMP's Crop first, then Export to JPG, GIMP Export asks for a QUALITY in the 1-100% range, if I choose 10% I do get a 400k file, but it's grainy as you might expect, and I wonder how ACDSee does such superior compression with barely any loss/grainy result. -------doug
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Hello Richard, Have you taken a look at these? https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/ https://saerasoft.com/caesium/ Enjoy your weekend, Joe On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:37 AM Richard Klein via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
How do PNG files compare?
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 8:05 AM Doug Mildram via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
doug> I have a topic idea and/OR question-for-list-here+now, but only half a clue; I seek the Grail (our group's collective mind meld) on....
Resizing/cropping images efficiently w/r/t ( a) my time to perform the file manipuation, and (b) efficient+good JPG compression/filesize-shrinking.
In my nearly-abandoned Windows-OS world, I had/have an obscure tool ACDSee which I paid $10-20 for, 25 yrs ago ! (still avail for windows only) which....
--- is very easy/quick to use in my opinion --- does an easy image rotation if needed --- does an easy crop-and-save (the main feature for me) --- magically, without asking about quality/compression? DOES COMPRESS Very Well: .... I can crop most images (eg typical smartphone jpg around 4mb for example, ........ I can crop most of it and save with a typical result = 10-20% of original file size = 400-800k ........... and you wouldn't believe how good the 10%-smaller image tends to look.
GIMP can do these, except seems to lack the magical quality of ACDSee for a downsize.
while doing GIMP's Crop first, then Export to JPG, GIMP Export asks for a QUALITY in the 1-100% range, if I choose 10% I do get a 400k file, but it's grainy as you might expect, and I wonder how ACDSee does such superior compression with barely any loss/grainy result. -------doug
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doug/OP> yay, ideas! Boo/delay: learning curve. Thing1: Found xnconvert is already on my linux Mint system, but havent figured out how to use it yet ( dont wanna crop via X/Y/Width/Height coordinates, i suspect if I get smarter it will let me crop via mouse.....) Thing2: Found caesium and/or caesiumPH is free compile-able software, if I knew how to compile it I'd try it, since it mentions no-pixel-loss compression in caesiumPH. I'm Qt-clueless however; ~/CaesiumPH-0.9.5-beta$ AUTHORS.md CaesiumPH.pro CHANGELOG.md icons/ icons.qrc LICENSE qss/ qt.conf README.md src/ style.qrc TODO.md translations/ doug> README says/includes...a bit more but below are the best hints: ##### REQUIREMENTS * [mozjpeg](https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg) * [Exiv2](http://www.exiv2.org/) ---------- ##### TESTED PLATFORMS * MacOSX El Capitan (v. 10.11.1) * Windows 10 64 bit * ArchLinux ---------- ##### INSTALLATION Binaries can be found at [GitHub]( https://github.com/Lymphatus/CaesiumPH/releases/latest) Linux source code must be compiled using Qt5.5. doug> ~/CaesiumPH-0.9.5-beta$ l src aboutdialog.cpp cimageinfo.h lossless.h* qdroptreewidget.cpp* aboutdialog.h cphlist.cpp main.cpp qdroptreewidget.h* aboutdialog.ui cphlist.h networkoperations.cpp utils.cpp caesiumph.cpp ctreewidgetitem.h networkoperations.h utils.h caesiumph.h exif.cpp preferencedialog.cpp caesiumph.ui exif.h preferencedialog.h cimageinfo.cpp lossless.cpp* preferencedialog.ui doug> Tempted to try binaries and/or learn Qt ( src/main.cpp clearly needs it w/o teaching me anything) ...................gotta run for now. Thanks ongoing. On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:02 AM Joseph G via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Hello Richard,
Have you taken a look at these?
https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/ https://saerasoft.com/caesium/
Enjoy your weekend, Joe
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:37 AM Richard Klein via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
How do PNG files compare?
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 8:05 AM Doug Mildram via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
doug> I have a topic idea and/OR question-for-list-here+now, but only half a clue; I seek the Grail (our group's collective mind meld) on....
Resizing/cropping images efficiently w/r/t ( a) my time to perform the file manipuation, and (b) efficient+good JPG compression/filesize-shrinking.
In my nearly-abandoned Windows-OS world, I had/have an obscure tool ACDSee which I paid $10-20 for, 25 yrs ago ! (still avail for windows only) which....
--- is very easy/quick to use in my opinion --- does an easy image rotation if needed --- does an easy crop-and-save (the main feature for me) --- magically, without asking about quality/compression? DOES COMPRESS Very Well: .... I can crop most images (eg typical smartphone jpg around 4mb for example, ........ I can crop most of it and save with a typical result = 10-20% of original file size = 400-800k ........... and you wouldn't believe how good the 10%-smaller image tends to look.
GIMP can do these, except seems to lack the magical quality of ACDSee for a downsize.
while doing GIMP's Crop first, then Export to JPG, GIMP Export asks for a QUALITY in the 1-100% range, if I choose 10% I do get a 400k file, but it's grainy as you might expect, and I wonder how ACDSee does such superior compression with barely any loss/grainy result. -------doug
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Do we know what room the meeting will be in yet? On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 5:54 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Hey Gang,
I'm going to move the meeting to August 15th.
If you've got a topic idea, let me know. Otherwise, we can either do an open topic meeting.
Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org
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