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Anonymous09/15/26, 03:01No.4527863Crunchy JPEGs
Was playing around with quality settings for fun and accidentally discovered that actually, super low quality JPEGs can look kind of cool and aesthetic. Give it a try, cook some JPEGs at arbitrarily low quality and see how they look. I've gotten best results from qual=0 to qual=10, personally, with most looking best around qual=5 or lower.
Tips:
>No difference between qual=0 and qual=3. Qual=4 is the first step that looks different from qual=0.
>4:4:4 subsampling yields a finer pixelisation effect than 4:2:0, although the actual difference in practice is not always noticeable. I don't think either is necessarily better than the other in terms of achieving the look.
>Progressive encoding and optimised Huffman tables have no effect on the look so no reason not to use em.
>Smoothing changes the pixelisation a little bit but not enough to worry about imo, mostly just makes it looks blurrier/fuzzier. Actually I think the softer edges detract from the harsh look.
Picrel is the one that started it all. Looks like something you'd see in an Amiga game. I'm gonna try printing some of these on copy paper with my home office inkjet to "enhance" the look.
>Local dogsnapper likes low-quality images
Pottery. Not huskyfag btw.
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Anon09/15/26, 03:04No.4527864
Second one. Running this through the crunchifier made the subtle pinks in the sky considerably stronger, and the reduction of some into greyscale gives the pinks, blues, and yellows some interesting contrast, imo.
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Anon09/15/26, 03:29No.4527867
I've wanted to crunchify pics, invert them then print them on transparency paper to use for alt process printing, but it's quite tricky to get the density curve correct to make satisfactory prints.
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Anon09/15/26, 05:44No.4527881
I just pasteurized this one to hell
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Anon09/16/26, 09:33No.4528104
I use an app called 8bitphoto
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Anon09/16/26, 09:38No.4528105
Also a dog photogrosophist
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Anon09/16/26, 10:19No.4528110
This is retarded beyond belief and you have no eye for visuals at all.