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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] I need help with the size of my photos linked to the websitecreated by Second Site
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 14:48:35 -0500
References: <410-220021223118395662@penn.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E131F36.6B240640@infoave.net>


Richard Brogger wrote:
>Opening and closing *.jpg a million times will cause no additional
>loss. However, opening *.jpg and using "Save" or "Save as..." will add
>to the loss every time. Thus you should avoid using a copy to make a
>new copy that must be saved. You can copy *.jpg to a new file name
>without loss but you can not save *.jpg to a new file name without
>loss. I hope that this makes sense because the distinction is
>important.

A similar thing can be seen with a photo-copier. Take anything and make a
reproduction using the copier. You can make any number of copies at the
same time or later from the original. This corresponds to opening and
closing the .jpg file. Now take one of those copies and reproduce it with
the copier. Take the result and do the same thing. Keep doing this more
than a few times and the final result with be a copy that looks nothing
like the original and is probably unrecognizable at best. This is
comparable ot opening the .jpg file as saving it (as opposed to closing it).


Lee Hoffman/KY
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