Just consolidating all the web format wish lists into a single ‘Export for web’ selection at the top, which will add various web-related options and remove unnecessary clutter, such as DPI.
If this has been added to PL8 please disregard this request.
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I don’t think he means that.
@migo33 , you can make your own option with no metadata, resizing to a size you want, select sRGB. Looking at your options you’ve done that before.
George
Hi @George, I’m not sure what you mean. I’m only asking/ suggesting DXO to add various other export formats, mainly for web. I saw many posts requesting web formats such as webP since 2019 and nothing changed or has been added.
In a world where most content is digital it seems odd to only have jpeg as a compressed option.
DxO is too small to engage in Google/Adobe/Apple/Microsoft/etc image format wars.
It may add something when the dust settles and there’s a clear choice in image compressing. For example, where is JPEG2000 now? Why Google stopped investing into one of the formats it invented? Maybe AVIF will kill 'em all, including HEIC/HEIF/HEVC? Who knows? It’s still changing each month now. For now, stay with standard JPEGs and RGB TIFFs, and you’ll be safe (but keep an eye on the news, of course).
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Thanks for clarifying. I wasn’t aware that it’s such a costly issue to add compression formats. There are so many apps and plugins that support those standards that I thought it’s just a matter of licencing perhaps.
I saw posts here from dxo support that said they’re going to add web formats. That was in 2019.
And as someone who does print work I haven’t used TIFF in 20 years nor RGB. Maybe for super hi-def large prints but even those are hard to distinguish between hi quality jpeg and TIFF.
It seems that the current effort is about universal image format, providing more options e.g. for color depth, less jpeg artifacts, better compression, and perhaps some other features, like animation (already there in GIFs). It’s still work in progress, I think, with no clear winner yet. Corpo marketing obviously finds a job for itself here, so there’s a lot of info noise. With so many image formats, DxO would have to rework also parts of their UI, which is always risky (note that new image formats will bring more options to choose from). It seems they have a priority to keep PhotoLab simple and quick to use, which personally I find useful. If they have some new export formats in the queue, they are probably at its tail, I guess. You may always export to 16-bit TIFF and use free ImageMagick to convert it to other formats.
Meanwhile I use RGB TIFF exports, e.g. to use Capture One Face Retouch tool or Affinity tools, and it still works fine. Printing is another story, since DR is still quite shallow. I just give well made JPEGs to my printing provider, as they said I would see no difference compared to 16-bit TIFFs, although they support it. Getting good shadows and colors in print…
Thanks @Wlodek , no need to go into complex GIF animations and colour depth. Not having a couple more compression options adds additional workflow and reduction in final output quality, since most people will convert jpegs to another compressed format.
It’s not complicated, just seems like laziness and an inability to adapt to industry shifts and trends. AI is a whole other subject, and the latest ‘updates’ in version 8 are cosmetic at best.