Re: Questions about Photoshop CS2....

Rob Novak wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:49:40 -0500, skenzer <> wrote:

2) Is it true that if your original file is a jpg that everytime you
save it it loses image quality?

To some extent, yes. Every time you open, edit, and save a JPEG, the
data is recompressed with a lossy algorithm. Some data is discarded.
Do it enough times and the artifacts become more and more prominent -
the higher the compression, the faster artifacting becomes apparent.

While working, you can save a jpeg as many times as you like, it only gets 'damaged' when you close the file.
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