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Re: Show HN: Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

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Since he doesn't summarize the test above, let me. The jpeg.io result is bigger than the other two and noticeably worse quality. The problems were with the sharp lines. Perhaps jpeg.io specializes in photo-realistic pictures rather than graphics and logos.

jpeg.io may have lost on sharp lines, but it had WAY fewer artifacts than either of the other exports, and the blue was closer to the original compared to the Photoshop export. In my opinion, it's a better quality image.

For me, it looks like a different image. As in, I would never have expected that the differences to the original weren't a (bad) choice by the "designer" making the image. That seems risky, and in many use cases a worse kind of artifact.

Re: Show HN: Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since he doesn't summarize the test above, let me. The jpeg.io result is bigger than the other two and noticeably worse quality. The problems were with the sharp lines. Perhaps jpeg.io specializes in photo-realistic pictures rather than graphics and logos.

Hi, co-founder of jpeg.io and kraken.io here. Thanks for this, we're still in "kinda beta" right now and will have a fix in production shortly. In summary, that's not supposed to happen at all and there are highly likely some other nasties which we will be ironing out over the next hours.

for being "kinda beta" you have quite the claims up on your website

Re: Show HN: Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

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Did a quick comparison test with this beautiful piece of artwork I just created. original http://i.pi.gy/0K7d.png (2.1 MB) jpeg.io http://i.pi.gy/AP8v.jpg (102 KB) Photoshop 60% jpeg Export http://i.pi.gy/Wr4P.jpg (90 KB) tinypng.com http://i.pi.gy/ndKA.png (74 KB) Note pi.gy does not compress uploads.

For fun, I took your original PNG from http://i.pi.gy/0K7d.png (205.5KB), converted it to maximum-quality JPEG (with Preview in OSX), then compressed it with JPEG Mini, resulting in a 122.6KB file. ImageOptim was able to shave off an extra 10KB with no visible loss. The resulting image at 112.2KB: https://i.imgur.com/kzZzfIi.jpg

You just "pied pipered" it :)

Re: Show HN: Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

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No privacy policy on the main or "About" page.

If you upload an image, who knows what the site operator will do with it? Without any kind of limit spelled out, we must assume the worst.

OP, unless the main goal of this site is to harvest images from oblivious people, please add a privacy notice.

Re: Show HN: Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

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MozJPEG is especially impressive at reducing artifacts around text: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2014/mozjpeg-3-0/

> If you want to run MozJPEG on your own machine, then you’ll need to use an ugly command-line program. :( And I'm out.

Command-line-only apps are typical of this genre of software (pngquant, pngcrush, all the webp utilities, ffmpeg, etc.)

However, sometimes there are GUI apps which wrap the tool itself.

Re: Show HN: Jpeg.io – Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG

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> If you want to run MozJPEG on your own machine, then you’ll need to use an ugly command-line program. :( And I'm out.

Command-line-only apps are typical of this genre of software (pngquant, pngcrush, all the webp utilities, ffmpeg, etc.) However, sometimes there are GUI apps which wrap the tool itself.

There has been a request pending for it on the IrfanView forums for 3 years now ;)
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