Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)

Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by IAmBroom on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:58PM (#44303264)

You'd be wrong in my experience.

No photog nerd wants EVEN MORE POSTPROCESSING.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by munchler on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @05:57PM (#44304404)

I don't understand. You've got to save the edited result in a file somehow. What format do you use?

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by msephton on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:29PM (#44305078)

The file as it comes out of the camera, so-called raw, is a family of formats. Usually such files are kept untouched and any edits are saved in a lightweight settings file (in the format of your editing app) alongside the original.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by ksec on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @08:10PM (#44305368)

And a low of RAW format are adopting or considering adopting JPEG Lossless as codec.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by nottorp on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:54AM (#44308712)

Is that like how javascript was named so as to imply a connection with java, in spite of there being none?

JPEG is the ur-example of lossy compression. JPEG Lossless can't have any connection with that.

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by 0xffff2 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:49PM (#44311904)

I'm not even really a hobbyist photographer anymore, but when I was, the full lossless edit was a .psd and that was generally exported to (high quality) jpg for distribution. I have folders full of carefully curated raws. For the relatively few that were ever edited they have an accompanying psd. The jpgs are ephemeral and don't get saved long term.

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