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Hi

 

A photo competition requires images submitted as JPEG level 8.

 

Am I right in thinking this would be done in Export Persona - Export Options and selecting the Quality setting number between 1 & 100, in this example would simply selecting 8 be the answer ?  

 

 

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Probably not. From a quick web search on "JPEG level 8" & a comment I found on this web page (quoted below), my guess is they are referring to Photoshop's "High Quality" JPEG setting. As the web page discusses, it isn't a very well defined setting, even in Photoshop, but if it were me I would go with Affinity's "High Quality" preset.

 

To hold good quality do not compress below level 8 (High Quality setting)

 

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Don't forget the Spinal Tap reference scale ("goes to eleven").  :lol:

 

Please disregard the above comment. It was meant as a tongue-in-cheek reference to MEB's comment (which has since been edited to remove the comment about different scales).

Edited by R C-R

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8 out of 12 percentage-wise is 67%

Photoshop's 0 to 12 scale is "fuzzier" than you might think. Adobe rather simplistically just divided the standard 0 to 100% JPEG compression range into twelve numbered values, so each of them actually maps to a range of percentages. There is a table on this web page that shows the mapping.

 

From it, you can see that Photoshop number 8 compression is the lowest of the PS "High Quality" settings & maps to anything in the 62 to 69% range. PS#9 maps to the 70-76% range, & so on. Thus, any setting in the 62 to 69% range in Affinity should comply with the competition's requirements.

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