User talk:XcepticZP

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File quality

I never said keeping a file large will increase the quality. Once an uncompressed image is compressed, you are basically screwed. Resaving a jpg as a jpg ALWAYS looses quality (even if you set the quality to maximum). There is no way to gain quality from an already compressed image. If you save a TIFF at say a 50 out of 100 quality jpg, then you edit it again and resave it again as a 50 out of 100 jpg, you are clearly decreasing the quality by recompressing already compressed data. In order to insure you don't loose quality, I typically save files that have already been converted to JPG once already at a 80-100 quality. Doing this will create a larger file, but again I'm not exactly sure why that is problematic because the commons servers creates thumbnails for most instances of the file anyway. To work on a JPG, photoshop converts it to an uncompressed format until you save it again. Therefore, to insure that when you resave the jpg as another jpg you aren't loosing quality, you need to save it at a higher setting than what was originally used. I know it's counter intuitive, but this is going to create a larger file that is even more compressed than the original jpg. That's simply how jpg works. Perhaps I could have compressed the image a little more to prevent a file that was threefold in size (but again, I don't see the problem with what I did). If you still think I don't have the grasp of compression and don't want me doing anything having to with with it in the future, I'd be glad to not offer my pro-bono work to wikipedia ;p -Andrew c ^[talk] 03:05, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Request

Hmm, i can't seem to remember about making any requests about an image, do you think you can give me a link.  Sunderland06  00:38, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah, thanks for the link, i dont need it anymore because i have a new user page design, thanks for alerting me.  Sunderland06  14:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:Toronto's CN Tower.jpg

Hi. You cropped this image earlier today. Unfortunately, the cropped version was wrecking havoc with the infobox at the main CN Tower article. And on a personal level, I think the sky on both sides nicely frames the tower. Having said that, however, my intent was to upload your cropped version to the Commons (the original now has an ncd tag, and will be replaced in time with the Commons version), so that both cropped and uncropped versions would be available. Unfortunately, I forgot to save the crop before I reverted. I apologize. Would it be too much of an imposition on you to ask that you upload the cropped version again? Sorry to put this additional burden on you, but I suspect that your cropping skills are better than mine. Thanks. Skeezix1000 (talk) 21:04, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Tag removal

Thanks for your prompt and flawless job! Regards Abecedare (talk) 02:56, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

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The Waterboarding image

Don't revert the image again without addressing my concerns. The original was better than your editing, which I guess wasn't the point.

This is what you fixed, which was nice:

• The flash glare was removed.
• The geometrics was straightened.

However, your editing is flawed on two major accounts:

• You've cropped the image way too much, which destroys a bit of the point: it is a picture in a somewhat crude steel frame taken from the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. If you're going to crop it, only crop a bit of the legs of that frame, not the entire frame. Opposed to what you seem to think, removing the context of a picture doesn't make it better.
• But the biggest point: You've blurred it VERY MUCH. It is way less distinct after your editing than it was before - the clarity and crispness is reduced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stolsvik (talk • contribs) 09:24, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Autograph images

For where to put them, by IFD I meant you can list the images here. Wizardman 21:18, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Douglas Bay Panorama photo

is there a way I can EMAIL the large sized originals to you or upload them somewhere else instead of on wikimedia commons? Wikimedia commons is just too tedious coz you have to upload each picture one by one.--Ganeshrg (talk) 18:35, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I have emailed you the link to the source photos. I hope you have received that.--Ganeshrg (talk) 13:56, 21 April 2008 (UTC)