Week 4
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I played with mangling a photo here.  That was fun. :^D

Size is drastically reduces as *someone* will already fuss that this page is oversized, dT?

All images used the settings listed below.  Only the compression was changed.  I did find that sharpening edge colors format increased the file sizes by a small chunk, but it kept some of the lines in tact, so I used it.  Smoothing made things a big blur here, so it was avoided.  There was enough texture in the image so that artifact was not really an issue, but 50 was about the lowest setting I could stand, and I don't really like it there as the lines become blurred and some are lost.

I also tried progressive compression which did decrease the file size, but also blurred the lines, so I left it unchecked.

Depending on how I was using this on a page, I think 60 would be the absolute lowest I would set it for compression and I might want to stay a bit higher than that as the red detail & crispness is being lost quickly.  Actually, 80 is fairly far below the crisp quality of the original image.  If it was a page where I could get away with a larger file size [like text only for the rest of the page] I might go higher than 80.

Thanks for the tips about presets for optimization settings & size.  That could come in handy with *someone's* mechanical detail shots that come in mass at times.  They are often in similar light and don't require much fancy fixing. I mean, how exciting can you make a pipe?  I don't think they'd want me doing to their photos what I did to this water drain off pipe down the way from our place.  lol

.jpg format
sharpen edge colors
no smoothing
remove unused color

compression @ 50
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