Message-Id: <mailto:199607080500.AAA18523@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:55:47 +1000 From: Jennifer Brasher <mailto:J.Brasher@INS.GU.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: Lossy compression To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I've heard from a photographer that repeated compression/decompression with Photoshop using JPEG caused loss of image data?Jennifer QCA
>A couple of months ago I asked if anyone knew why image files compressed
>repeatedly with lossy compression methods will eventually get larger
>rather than smaller. I think I may have found the answer, which I'd like
>to share.
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