[Digikam-users] How to stop "watermark" reducing the size of the pictures?

[cerp]

Dear Jan,

I have set JPEG quality = 100 and chroma sub sampling = none, that  
should be maximum quality correct?



Quoting Jan Wolter <jan.wolter at uni-paderborn.de>:

> Hello,
>
> I guess that your images are generally (independent from the added  
> watermark) not saved with maximal quality. Check your settings under  
> menu Settings -> Configure digiKam -> Saving Images.
>
> Best regards,
> Jan
>
> On 08/28/2014 09:43 AM, cerp wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We use the watermark function to add the copyright in the bottom  
>> right corner of the pictures.
>>
>> The pictures are taken using in camera jpeg generation, which  
>> normally has very high quality.
>>
>> When we watermark in digikam, it reduces the size of the jpeg file  
>> from approximately 4Mb to 1.8Mb with a considerable loss of  
>> quality. We have tried setting all the parameters we could think,  
>> but without being able to stop this behavior. What I would like is  
>> the original picture with the watermark saved at the same  
>> resolution without additional compression  .... how do I achieve it?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Corrado & Rina
>>
>>
>> r
>>
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