[New] BPG Image Format

[Bob Sneidar]

Some years back, I took a tiff file, printed it out on a color proofing device, then saved it as a JPEG file with medium compression and printed it again. From a small distance, our graphics artist could not tell which image was which or see a difference. Up close however, his trained eye could see minute variations in the JPEG image.

I wonder if he could have seen the difference using low JPEG compression. I guess my point is, if it takes a trained eye to tell the difference, how much “better” can better be? It might be like trying to produce a higher resolution display than a retina display. The difference becomes purely academic at some point.

Now as far as file size, if they can achieve same size or smaller than JPEG with a noticeable improvement in quality, why then that is something.

Bob S


On Dec 12, 2014, at 17:02 , Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com<mailto:capellan2000 at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi All,

Check this new image format:
http://bellard.org/bpg/
http://bellard.org/bpg/gallery2.html
http://bellard.org/bpg/lena.html

Interesting enough, this new image format
looks a lot better than JPEG and have
an impressive compression advantage
compared with PNG...

Have a weekend!

Al