GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 326627
JPEG save should preserve DCT coefficients of unchanged image blocks
Last modified: 2008-01-15 13:03:58 UTC
This is very important to photographers: When saving a touched-up JPEG image, unchanged image blocks should have exactly the same encoding as when loaded, so that there is no gratuitous image degradation from repeated loading and saving. This could be an option on the JPEG save dialog, e.g., "Preserve original encoding where possible." It can easily be implemented by decompressing the original JPEG file while saving the modified image and using the old DCT coefficients where the image blocks match.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105623 ***