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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Moe &quot;Wolfy&quot; Wilder, post: 5128914, member: 114824&quot;]I am not very knowledgable of photography in general, but I am a old-school IT guy. There are some benefits to using the jpg format as you and Ras point out and I understand that, but jpg format is a lot like cloning in Star Trek. Each time you make a copy, the quality degrades by 5-10%. So only the very first jpg that you save (at 90% or better) is a true representation. Any time you make a change and resave it as jpg, it looses something. This includes the resizing and stitching operations. I don&#039;t use RAW, but do always try to use PNG when I have to work on an image. Even if the original image is a public domain jpg from the internet, i convert it to PNG first and keep saving it as PNG until I&#039;m done working on it. Then I would convert to jpg for distribution, because I still have the PNG. Anytime I want to work on the image in the future, I would go to the original PNG and never the jpg. When I read your explanation, it sounded as though you saved your work as jpg and then did additional work to that jpg, and resaved it multiple times as jpg. This can and often does degrade the image. It literally starts getting blurry. The color starts doing wierd things at the pixel level too. My point was if you are creating a perfect image, at least save the original in a cumbersome lossless format that does not degrade when modified and resaved, because jpgs rarely stay perfect for long.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this makes sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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