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In article <108pti8crph8pca@corp.supernews.com>, 
John Corliss <jcorliss@secrewspam.to#> wrote:
[...]
>"When it comes to programs for digital imaging, too many is not enough."
>
>Eventually, you get all the features you need scattered among the 
>programs you have installed, freeware or not. Kind of a PITA to switch 
>from one program to another all the time, but still much better than 
>forking out the unrealistic amount that Adobe wants.

Is there likely to be any downside (other than inconvenience) 
associated with working on an image with a sequence of programs? 

That is, will the image be "degraded" in a way that wouldn't happen if 
it's all done under the control of a single program?

Or are the algorithms for doing all the various little tricks so 
necessarily standardised for a particular format (e.g. JPEG) that it 
doesn't matter much one way or the other?

>By the way, I tried the program you suggested, "NoiseFilter" and 
>compared the results with "Polaroid Dust and Scratch Remover Utility." 
>The latter gets much better results because it doesn't blur the image 
>overall as badly as "NoiseFilter." I.e. the automatic mask creation 
>works much better.

Well, I guess that answers my questions in part.  :-)


Cheers, Phred.

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