These are optimized at four different levels from the original PSD before converting to a jpeg.




The more times you save a file as a jpeg the image starts to break down. You in effect are compressing the compression. You should only save an image the one time as a jpeg. If you optimize a jpeg, you are stripping the image of information and when you save it you compress the compression, this adds up to become a degraded image with pixelation and noise being built up.

When you are working on an image and you need to save it over and over again, it needs to be a non-compressed image like a PSD (PhotoShop), BMP (bit map) or such. When the image is ready to be saved the final time, for the Internet, save as a jpeg.

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