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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by martin_a on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:21PM (#44300855)
> How in the world do people store images / photos nowadays?

Well, as JPEGs? Why not? Quality is just fine if you don't touch the quality slider in Photoshop or other software.

For "more" there's still lossless camera RAW formats and large image formats like PSD and whatnot.

JPEG is just fine.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by afiori on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:32PM (#44302276)
I wonder how much of JPEG good quality is that we are quite accustomed to its artefacts.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by Arainach on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:00PM (#44303292)
I've never seen JPEG artifacts on images modified/saved 5 or fewer times. Viewing on a monitor including at 100%, printing photos, whatever - in practice the artifacts don't matter.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by somat on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @07:15AM (#44308832)
jpeg artifacts mainly show up on drawings. where they seriously degrade masking operations. which is a hobby of mine. so I always appreciate it when a drawing is a png. rather than a bunch of jpeg goop.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:00PM (#44302620)
At high quality, the artifacts are not visible unless you take a magnifying glass to the pixels, which is a practice anathema to enjoying the photo.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by afiori on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:22PM (#44303514)
I am referring to highly compressed images or low resolution ones, at high bitrates mostly all formats look the same.

what i mean is that jpeg squarish artifacts look ok while av1 angular artifacts look distorted

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by whaleofatw2022 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:02PM (#44302644)
There's something to be said about this. A high quality JPEG after cleanup can sometimes be larger than an ARW (sony RAW) on export and it makes no sense to me.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by a-french-anon on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:23AM (#44307816)
For non-photographic images, I'm horribly sensible to the ringing artifacts. Thankfully, there's waifu2x (in denoise mode only) to remove those when textures don't confuse it too much and I use MozJPEG to encode, which really improves the result.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by mrob on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @07:10AM (#44308801)
JPEG artifacts are less disturbing because they're so obviously artificial. WEBP and similar artifacts look more natural, which makes them harder to ignore.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by afiori on Thursday June 19, 2025 @02:57AM (#44316181)
I think I agree, low quality JPEGs give the idea of looking through slightly imperfect glass, WEBP and AV1 look a bit more like bad AI
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