Poor JPG Handler on FTP Uploader

[Eagle66]

I'm new to PM and surprised about the poor Quality-Handler for JPG on FTP Upload .
Sports- or Eventphotographer send 99% of all Photos as JPGs and i have to setup  Photoshop-Quality: 10 - Baseline Standard (1-12).

Other Software use 0-100% slider - here is the JPG-setupquality 85% for FTP-Upload.



How to i setup this quality in PM, which dash / line is 85% 

2nd: If i select ONE Picture with size 1,76MB - FTP Upload shows 3,15 MB??

See this Thread: http://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=3904.0



Thanks Robert.

[Kirk Baker]

Robert,

I'm new to PM and surprised about the poor Quality-Handler for JPG on FTP Upload .
Sports- or Eventphotographer send 99% of all Photos as JPGs and i have to setup  Photoshop-Quality: 10 - Baseline Standard (1-12).

Other Software use 0-100% slider - here is the JPG-setupquality 85% for FTP-Upload.



How to i setup this quality in PM, which dash / line is 85% 

2nd: If i select ONE Picture with size 1,76MB - FTP Upload shows 3,15 MB??

See this Thread: http://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=3904.0

Well, you're not really comparing apples to apples.  In your 'Other Software' screen shot you're allowing color subsampling and in Photo Mechanic you're not enabling color subsampling.  Try turning on "Subsample Chroma" checkbox.  The size will reduce a fair amount.  If the size is still not to your liking, set the slider more to the Low side until you get what you want.

Photo Mechanic uses its own JPEG quantization tables that we feel produce a more linear quality degradation than other software and its something that may take a little getting used to.   As for showing a number (quality slider value) we don't have plans to do that at this time.

And lastly for the issue of the original image being 1.75 MB and the Upload one being 3.15 MB that is because the original image was saved with a far lower JPEG quality setting (and likely has color/chroma subsampling on as well) than what you currently had as settings.  It is entirely possible for any application that loads an image into memory and then JPEG compresses the image to get an image size that was larger than the original compressed image.

HTH,

-Kirk


HTH,

-Kirk

[Eagle66]

Robert,

Photo Mechanic uses its own JPEG quantization tables that we feel produce a more linear quality degradation than other software and its something that may take a little getting used to.   As for showing a number (quality slider value) we don't have plans to do that at this time.

Hmm, to set the JPEG-Quality is the MOST important job before sending. You have to setup the optimal size for quality and Time (Size) and at the moment you have a quality slider which can't setup and reproducible to an exact constant-number you have to try to move 1-2 millimeter left or right..

And this tiny controller is crucial the quality of the photos in newspapers  

I ask this as important feature request.

Thanks Robert.

[Kirk Baker]

Robert,

Photo Mechanic uses its own JPEG quantization tables that we feel produce a more linear quality degradation than other software and its something that may take a little getting used to.   As for showing a number (quality slider value) we don't have plans to do that at this time.

Hmm, to set the JPEG-Quality is the MOST important job before sending. You have to setup the optimal size for quality and Time (Size) and at the moment you have a quality slider which can't setup to an exact constant-number you have to try to move 1-2 millimeter left or right..

And this tiny controller is crucial the quality of the photos in newspapers 

I ask this as important feature request.

So, seeing a number like 82 or 87 or 96 will make all the difference?  I would have thought that seeing the size of the file you'll be uploading would be the most important and best feedback.

-Kirk