I scanned some microfilm yesterday. For some reason the software does not support JPEG so I scanned into TIFF format, putting 5 images in each TIFF file to reduce the number of times I had to enter a file name.
When I got home I used GIMP to extract the individual images into JPEGs. Unexpectedly the JPEGs are enormous! For example one of the TIFF files that was 5MB in total, containing 5 images remember, exported into JPEGs which ranged from 9.0MB to 9.6MB! That is using the default 85% quality. This is unexpected since TIFF uses lossless compression while I have indicated to GIMP that I would tolerate some quality loss. Even when I reduced the quality to 65% the JPEGs were still over 5MB each. Are there any suggestions on how I can get GIMP to construct reasonable sized JPEGs? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Large-file-size-on-TIFF-to-JPEG-conversion-tp23794145p23794145.html Sent from the Gimp User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
