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flif

I've felt that autismal pain.

this is what high quality looks like 600 shoops later.

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fuck me dead!

.jpg and then keep both you faggot.

If you expect to edit it again, save the GIMP .xcf file so you won't lose layers or anything.

The very first thing to do, if the picture has any noticeable compression noise, and/or it is too small: you run it through the glorious upscaler waifu2x. Only then you start work on it, and only save as something lossless.

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Find a high quality source or limit editing to jpegtran commands.
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Save it as png and xcf, and export to jpg only when the situation makes it preferrable. Because your master copy is lossless the quality won't degrade more when you re-edit it.

Lossless editing. Many simple image editors are capable of performing simple edits such as cropping, rotation, and tinting for lossy formats such as JPEG without actually recompressing it and introducing new artifacts:
jpegclub.org/losslessapps.html

Alas, while theoretically possible, I'm not aware of any still image editor capable of detecting which macroblocks in an edited image have changed and applying video-style delta compression only to those regions.

glorious upscaler very yes.

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