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Old 09-10-2009, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Vassago View Post
I'm just curious, why wouldn't it happen if it was being done on RAW? When you saturate, etc. it happens on the whole picture... so the sailboat as well, right?
I think the problem here is not RAW vs JPEG but saving as JPEG with too much compression. I can see the compression artifacts here.

Working with a program like the Gimp (which is a great tool for photo processing and is free) you can make intermediary saves using a lossless format like XCF and only commit to JPEG (at about 85 - 90% quality) at the end. That should give a result that looks great to all but the most zealous pixel-peeping.

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