Re:Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
by deepsun on Friday April 03, 2026 @06:38PM
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But that one (art002e000193~large.jpg) is only 287kB. The Lightroom-processed one is 6.2MB. I would expect original to be heavier.
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Re:Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
by saint_yossarian on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:00PM
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The resolutions are different, 1920x1280 vs. 5568x3712.
Also possibly different JPEG quality settings.
Re:Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
by Melatonic on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:33PM
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Could be the thumbnail / preview image generated alongside the raw
Re:Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
by porphyra on Friday April 03, 2026 @06:43PM
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The Lightroom one was processed from raw. Also, by brightening it a lot, the noisy high-ISO grain becomes more apparent. Noise is famously incompressible, so it leads to a much larger file size.
Re:Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
by thfuran on Friday April 03, 2026 @06:53PM
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Brightening the image may make the iso noise easier to see, but it doesn't create it.
Re:Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
by miduil on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:40PM
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But lossy-codecs job is to utilize psychovisual tricks to discard as much high-frequency information as possible, whilst remaining similar visual effects. If you increase the brightness in RAW and then re-encode the JPEG - more noise is being pulled up in the visual spectrum, therefor less of that information (filesize) is discarded.
For example, if you render Gaussian noise in photopea and export as JPEG 100% quality, it has 9.2MB. If you reduce the exposure by -2 it goes down to 7.8MB. That's partially because more parts of the noise are effectively black pixels, but also I believe because of the earlier mentioned effect.
Re:Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
by porphyra on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:34PM
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Noise that's easier to see will not be compressed away by the JPEG compression. JPEG is basically just DCT + thresholding. Any higher amplitude noise is going to stay and increase the final file size.
Also, pulling more data from your 14 bit or 16 bit raws results in more noise in the end compared to the straight-out-of-camera 8 bit JPEGs.