Pardon the slightly geeky post.
The other day I was saving a JPG and choosing the quality I wanted to save it at (100% that particular day) when I realized that I’d saved at 100% before and I’d saved at 73% before (my normal for-the-web quality), I’d never seen what an ultra-compressed JPG looked like, a 1% quality JPG.
So I tried it. It took a 2.5 meg file down to 70k, about 98% compression. Impressive. Even more impressive is that the result looked like old school ANSI art.
Here’s an example using a picture of a really, really, REALLY cute baby and her geek of a father, saved at 100%:
Now, here’s the same photo saved at 1%:
I’d venture to say that the dude in the picture looks better in the second image.
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Paul April 3, 2007, 2:08 pm
Looks like he’s got a nasty rash in the second one.
These are enjoyable though – definitely reminds me of the Olde Days.
Aanen April 3, 2007, 2:20 pm
The second one kinda reminds me of the old sierra games
Ryan April 3, 2007, 2:26 pm
Good call.
jk April 3, 2007, 2:54 pm
Daddy really is a geek!
Where did you buy that shirt? (Hers, not yours.)
Ryan April 3, 2007, 3:00 pm
Huyen bought it for her (us)… I think she got it from http://www.urbansmalls.com/
jk April 4, 2007, 12:24 am
Thanks! That label is carried by a store in our city. How fun!