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Phred wrote:
> John Corliss 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?

I guess the best answer to that is that it depends on the program 
being used.

>> 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.  :-)

Phred,
   If you're working on an image that's been saved as a .jpg file, 
you're going to most likely degrade the image quality each time you 
open, modify and save it. That's why I alway use a raw image (.tif or 
.bmp format) while I'm working on it and opening it in various 
programs. Once I'm happy with the image, I save the final version as a 
.jpg.
   On the other hand, sometimes I have to reopen and then save a .jpg 
and in those cases, I turn down the compression as much as possible 
(either zero or 1 percent.) I've noticed that a .jpg image saved with 
maximum quality and minimum compression loses no image quality that I 
can discern, and the file size is still much much smaller than when 
saved as a .tif or .bmp.

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Regards from John Corliss
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