heinz-oz wrote:This message is there to remind you that you are just about to lose quality in the image you are saving. Every time you open and save a jpeg image, you are losing quality.
This message will remind you to save to an uncompressed format like the PI native UFO format to retain your changes to the image while working on it.
Eventually of course, you are going to be done with it and have to save to a lossy compression format again to be able to use your image as you chose. Try to make that the last step in your process.
If you are an experienced PI user who knows all that, by all means, get rid of the message like vidoman suggested. If you are not, well, this message might save you from losing quality in your image.
Thank you, Heinz! These are all old photos I scanned, and I decided when I took the time to learn a little more about my scanner to always scan in the highest quality jpg.
Last year, when I was trying to learn more about PI7, I became aware of the fact that, each time I copy a jpg, I lose a little of the quality. I also learned about the different formats, and what lossless and lossy mean. However, I was still confused about a lot of things, and simply ran out of time to do further self-teaching. However, I'm determined to learn how to make gifs, but every time I've tried to figure it out, I wind up more confused than before.
Being disabled and homebound, I can't go out to a school to learn, and every tutorial I've taken about this online and questions I've asked on various forums have left me still confused. I've since hired a webmaster for my business, and he's promised to teach me how to make gifs, once and for all. Fortunately, he knows many photo programs, so I'm confident I'll finally learn what I need to learn.
I had a feeling that my current problem had a simple solution, and fortunately I was right. My son turned 40 last week, and I've been working on a DVD album of his childhood photos to give him in honor of that milestone. There are hundreds of them, and given their age and the fact that we didn't know back then how to preserve photos properly, editing them has been difficult, at best, so having that one extra click to make was getting very annoying. Thanks for your input; it's much appreciated! What's the weather like down under?~Bountifully, Fuchsia
