Do you have a general stance about it?
Once every couple of months I look into the state of both projects and it’s slow but steadily progressing.
I am mainly looking into it because of the file compression. My tests showed that I can save up to 70% in disk space for a jpg image without losing too much information for both formats, avif and jxl. It depends on the images but in general it’s astonishing and I wonder why I still save jpgs in 100% quality.
But, I could also just save or convert my whole library to 70% jpg compression. Any advice?
Don’t compress your images to 70% jpg!!!
HDD space is essentially free, just get more. With a 70% quality jpg, you lose the ability to crop, edit or blow up your images. It basically limits you to looking at them on a screen. And even there, you’ll get jarring artifacts in dark areas.
I think they were saying that they could save space by converting their existing jpg files to avif or jpgXL,
not converting to a 70% quality jpg. JpgXL can do this losslessly so there’s no drawback there, but converting to avif would be a lossy to lossy transcode.EDIT: I completely missed OP’s last paragraph, which does say they are considering converting their existing jpg files into 70% jpgs.
Hdd space is free?? Where do you live?
“essentially free” not technically free.
A typical picture as an uncompressed BMP would cost $0.00001725
Thats 57,980 pictures for a dollar.
Sources:
https://toolstud.io/photo/filesize.php?imagewidth=1920&imageheight=1080
https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&disk_types=external_hdd,external_hdd25,internal_hdd,internal_hdd25,internal_sshd,internal_sas,external_ssd,internal_ssd,m2_ssd,m2_nvme,u2
Price per MB = Price per TB / 1,000,000
Ohhh, got it. The whole file size thing went through my head.
Take 50 photos per day that you actually keep, save them in RAW format, and a $30 2TB HDD will last you for 4 years.
I don’t understand what you mean! 🧐
If I have a 70% quality jpeg, I can open it in Gimp and crop, edit or blow up (a bit) the image.
You can, but 70% quality has visible jpeg artifacts and any editing makes them worse.
Oh. I see!
Thank you 😊