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

[Jan Wolter]

Yes, thats true. Does this settings have a positive impact to the 
quality of your edited pictures?

On 08/28/2014 12:11 PM, cerp wrote:
>
> 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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