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by kurtextrem 840 days ago
do you know why Jon didn't compare near-lossless in the "visually lossless" part?
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WebP near-lossless is very far in compression density against that kind of visually lossless. Still 2-3x more bits I think. No reason to compare. The near-lossless (at settings 60 and 80) is closer to pixel perfect no matter how much you zoom, whereas Jon's "visually lossless" is what I'd rather call usual very high quality lossy without pixel precision guarantees.