How come when software says "optimize image"...

[misterx]

it always means "reduce the quality of the image by compressing it, thereby making it look worse"? It's like going to a restaurant and being handed a check... except that you aren't being given money, you have to pay. Stupid backwards language.

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[dariens-haircut.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my hell.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

If you're starting with a high dpi RAW image file, you can "optimize". If it's at 96 dpi, and in jpeg format, that's as optimized as it should get.