Does wordpress compress jpeg that was already compressed?

  • clawduda

    (@clawduda)


    5 years ago

    Hi,

    My wordpress is set to compress ipeg images to a quality of 82, it was the default setting, which I am fine with.

    However I was wondering if this means that I should NOT lower the quality of the original pictures before uploading them.

    I usually export my pictures in photoshop and set them as progressive and a quality of 80. Does this mean that wordpress will re-compress and already optimized picture and thus give the thumbnails a drop in quality further than if my original picture was at 100 quality ? Or perhaps I should export my original picture in something higher than 82 ?

    I am not sure how wordpress handles these situations.

    Thank you

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    The original is not changed. It is the other generated sizes of the image that use the quality percentage, which can be changed with a filter.
    Maybe you should do a few tests with different sizes and resolutions to see if what you get needs tweaking.

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