Digital Light & Color

I installed PWP 6 under Xubuntu 12.04 / Wine. The installation was easy and apart from some bugs using workflows PWP 6 works properly. Now I wanted to install PWP 7, but got an error message "Picture Window Pro 32 v7.0 Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error." Has anybody tried ...

Dieter, you're right, the difference function in PWP shows very clear the differences between the pictures, easier than to compare it by eye. Thanks for the tip! With exiftool I extracted a thumbnail image from a picture: It is definitely not the thumbnail which Metadatastripper leaves as a result, ...

I compared a stripped file and an original file again, more thoroughly. Now I saw a difference, not clearly at the edges, but foremost in homogenous colour areas. But the stripped file (776 KB) is better than a file saved by 90 % (1.222 KB). I don't think, Metadata stripper leaves only a preview ima...

Ok, I opened an original file from the camera, 4.622 KB, saved it by PWP (100%): 5.001 KB. I saved it without profile and without comments: 5.001 KB, no difference (?). I use Image MetaData Stripper (on it's web site http://codewelt.com/stripper it says "The image quality is _not_ altered in an...

Thanks. But how is it possible, that a tool that strips only metadata, reduces the file size to only 10 - 20% ?
How large is the proportion of metadata in a jpg-file saved by PWP?

Rainer

I take pictures with my Lumix GX-1. The JPG-file size is approx. 4.5 MB. I edit the photos with Picture Window Pro 6. The saved JPG-files are approx. 6 to 10 MB. I use ImageMetaDataStripper to strip all the Metadata. Result: filesize of approx. 1 MB (!). I open the 1-MB-file in Picture Window, don't...