[ale] Digital Cameras + Gimp

[kjkrum at comcast.net (Kevin Krumwiede)]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:24:54 -0400
Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> I've been using gimp to rotate pictures taken from a 
> digital camera.  I've noticed that if I load a picture in
> gimp then save it with no modifications the resulting file
> is smaller than the original.  Is something being changed?

Yes.  As others have said, every time you save a jpeg you recompress it, and that causes a loss of quality.  However, jepg rotation *can* be accomplished without recompressing.  There are programs that do it, I'm kinda surprised GIMP isn't one of them, common as jpegs are.
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