Saving JPEG's in PS6

buzzlightweight · 26 May 2013 at 20:09

Dont get me wrong i know how to do it

but i just wanted to know what are the optimal settings when saving as i have always just hit save.

What does all the format options do?

many thanks buzz

pryere · 27 May 2013 at 14:08

Use "Standard".

buzzlightweight · 27 May 2013 at 17:31

pryere said:
Use "Standard".

why?

Hyburnate · 27 May 2013 at 17:39

Don't hold me to this, however I think Optimized, helps with the size without doing much damage to the quality, whereas Standard doesn't help with the size at all.

dannyjo22 · 27 May 2013 at 19:22

Found this with google:

Baseline (Standard) - This JPEG format is recognized by all Web browsers.
Baseline Optimized - This JPEG format option provides optimized color and slightly better compression. It is supported by all modern browsers, but was not supported in the very earliest of Web browsers. It's your best choice for JPEG files today.
Progressive - Creates a JPEG file that displays gradually as it downloads, starting out blocky, and gradually getting clearer as it downloads. It doesn't make the image download any faster, but it can give the illusion of speed since the blocky image is loaded right away on a slow connection. With the majority of internet users on high speed connections today, Progressive JPEG is rarely used.

buzzlightweight · 27 May 2013 at 19:29

Hyburnate said:
Don't hold me to this, however I think Optimized, helps with the size without doing much damage to the quality, whereas Standard doesn't help with the size at all.

ty thats a lot more helpful

buzzlightweight · 27 May 2013 at 20:17

dannyjo22 said:
Found this with google:

Baseline (Standard) - This JPEG format is recognized by all Web browsers.
Baseline Optimized - This JPEG format option provides optimized color and slightly better compression. It is supported by all modern browsers, but was not supported in the very earliest of Web browsers. It's your best choice for JPEG files today.
Progressive - Creates a JPEG file that displays gradually as it downloads, starting out blocky, and gradually getting clearer as it downloads. It doesn't make the image download any faster, but it can give the illusion of speed since the blocky image is loaded right away on a slow connection. With the majority of internet users on high speed connections today, Progressive JPEG is rarely used.

spot on thank you

pryere · 28 May 2013 at 17:15

I read (long ago) that "Standard" was the way to go. I shall experiment with Baseline.

oio · 28 May 2013 at 23:29

Something else to bear in mind about the Photoshop jpeg settings (and Lightroom too) is that "Quality" level 7 can potentially create lower quality images than level 6, due to a change between compression algorithms...

http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-quantization.html

The equivalent settings to watch out for in Lightroom are something like the 54-61% quality range.