cropping without degradation?

Hi Group,
Is there a free software program available that will allow me to crop photos
without the resulting photo being degraded?

Thanks,
Brigitte

Brigitte,

In most cases image degradation is not due to the software used for
cropping, but the image file format. When you edit photos, do NOT use
JPEG, because it is compressed each time you save it, losing quality.
If you use non-compressed formats such as TIFF or PSD, the software
should not matter--they will not degrade.

Charlie
http://FlyingSamPhoto.com

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Brigitte wrote:
Hi Group,
Is there a free software program available that will allow me to crop photos
without the resulting photo being degraded?


JPEGCROP is freeware that uses a GUI front end to JPEGTRAN. It performs
lossless cropping of JPEG images (i.e without re-encoding the image after
the crop operation).

http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/

Mike S. wrote:
In article ,
Brigitte wrote:

Hi Group,
Is there a free software program available that will allow me to crop photos
without the resulting photo being degraded?



JPEGCROP is freeware that uses a GUI front end to JPEGTRAN. It performs
lossless cropping of JPEG images (i.e without re-encoding the image after
the crop operation).

http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/
Do remember though that when you crop you are throwing away pixels, so
the resolution will reduce!

Charlie,

Thanks for this. Something I really have to study up on. Good
question, Brigitte.

Patzt

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In article ,
peter wrote:
Mike S. wrote:
In article ,
Brigitte wrote:

Hi Group,
Is there a free software program available that will allow me to crop photos
without the resulting photo being degraded?



JPEGCROP is freeware that uses a GUI front end to JPEGTRAN. It performs
lossless cropping of JPEG images (i.e without re-encoding the image after
the crop operation).

http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/
Do remember though that when you crop you are throwing away pixels, so
the resolution will reduce!

Correct. But utilities like jpegcrop will not introduce any additional
compression artifacts as a result of having cropped and saved the file.

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:08:38 -0000, () wrote:
Brigitte wrote:

Is there a free software program available that will allow me to crop photos
without the resulting photo being degraded?

http://www.gimp.org/

Without such a steep learning curve:

http://www.imagemagick.org/

Jonesy
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Charles Kerekes a dit ça :


In most cases image degradation is not due to the software used for
cropping, but the image file format. When you edit photos, do NOT use
JPEG, because it is compressed each time you save it, losing quality.
If you use non-compressed formats such as TIFF or PSD, the software
should not matter--they will not degrade.

no !
not even
http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/losslessapps.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/




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