Chris,
Sorry to nudge a bruise. I was very impressed jp2000 when I played with it
once, but I do recall a lot of overhead to the process.
I've been thinking more about your original question on postprocessing of
the image (which is here: http://soli.inav.net/~jdub/day/day27.html). I
started to wonder why you asked, and then wondered if the colors are screwy
on your machine, and then realized my standard processing, while standard
for me, is a bit more than just cropping. So let me itemize my post routine:
1) Set levels (this might have required setting the black point only)
2) Mess with curves (this one didn't require any messing)
3) Resize to c.400x600 pixels @72 dpi
4) "Save for web" in PS at about 50KB
5) Open file, change profile to sRGB, and re-save
The last step makes the colors more garish on the web version in
Photoshop. In the various browsers it makes a better match to the original
capture in PS (on my machine).
Joel W.
At 06:11 PM 10/30/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Joel
>
>Yes, of course, the degree of compression varies between "quality"
>levels; I was thinking of size alone.
>
>JP2k is rather a sore point with me. I bought PS CS partly on the
>promise of integrated support for JP2k, but it takes 3 months to save a
>100mb file in this format. For some reason Adobe decided that the user
>wants to control the format more closely than other formats and gives
>the user a pre-save dialogue box with a preview of the effect. It's
>like the Save for the Web operation: way too complicated ...
>
>... so I don't use it now. I will save my files as .psd as that seems
>to be smaller than a .tif file, save re-sized and re-sampled files for
>web use (600 pixels, re-sampled using Bicubic Sharper) and use .jpg for
>keeping a smaller file for cataloguing. The main file will go on a CD
>or DVD and, of course, I retain the negative or slide in case my drives
>go kaput.
>
>Chris
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