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urbandw311er on Dec 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)

So here’s what I don’t get about this post:

> this is WebP re-encoding of an already lossy compressed JPEG

Author is clearly passionate about imagery and quality, so why are they not re-encoding using the original file rather than a lossy copy?

sheepshear on Dec 15, 2023 [–]

> So, I wondered how bad it was for actual raw photos encoded straight in darktable. Meaning just one step of encoding.

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