POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Matinee : Re: Matinee Server Time
31 Jul 2024 02:31:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Matinee  
From: Trevor G Quayle
Date: 22 Mar 2011 08:30:01
Message: <web.4d889644f5e1e8f881c811d20@news.povray.org>
Ive <ive### [at] lilysoftorg> wrote:
> Am 21.03.2011 17:55, schrieb Trevor G Quayle:
> I assume then that the dithering doesn't apply to jpg
> saving?
>
> Dithering works also with jpeg output but as jpeg is always lossy
> and most of all the RGB -> YCbCr (the color space internal used by jpeg)
>   transformation is already lossy it might happen the the dithered color
> falls exactly into a gap produced by rounding errors of the lossy color
> space transformation, err, if you know what I mean, I'm not very good in
> explaining such things.
> First try it with the option chroma-subsampling (within the 'Save JPEG
> Options' dialog) DISABLED and a quite high quality setting (lets say
> 95%) if this doesn't help you can try to change the exposure value (just
> some barely visible amount increased or decreased) within the
> Tonemapping dialog so the dithered colors might miss the 'gaps'.
>
> -Ive

It had to do with the quality settings for JPG.  Was set to 90%, setting to 100%
works fine.  I hadn't found where the settings were before, the Format Option
button was a bit inconspicuous I guess.

Very nice little program.

-tgq


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