<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I am not very educated on that subject but I have heard HEIF is smaller file size and is capable of having embedded animation, etc.</div><div dir="auto">There are few good examples posted here:</div><div dir="auto">https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Having said that, I am not considering converting any existing JPGs to HEIF. I am just not a big fan of converting.</div><div dir="auto">I will however use HEIF if the device can produce it natively. I will probably be exporting to HEIF from darktable, GIMP, etc. once they support the format.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Erick Moreno <erickmoreno@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 2020-01-09 8:07 a.m. (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users@kde.org> </div><div>Subject: [digiKam-users] Benefits or drawbacks from JPG to HEIF conversion </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi guys,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not generating HEIF files natively with my devices, but, since Digikam can handle them pretty well, as Google Photos and my cellphones does, I see that my main workflow is ready for a possible migration to heif.</div><div><br></div><div>Considering that, there is any benefit converting my already compressed .jpg files to .heif files?</div><div><br></div><div>What the benefits or drawbacks from this type of conversion?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Erick Moreno</b></div><div>Science is like magic, but real<br></div><div dir="ltr"><b></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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