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Love the picture, wish we had a compression algorithm that didn't do red at half resolution. I get why it was originally done for pictures and video that might include faces. But it has ruined so many other pictures now that compression is standard for everything everywhere.
There really needs to be an object/art oriented compression that treats all colors equally.
I believe (lossless) JPEGXL is pretty good just not very popular.
Hehe yeah. I suppose that's the main thing. Not just existing, but I wish they were used. Hehe.
We do have have compression algos that have true color. Webp by default is 4:2:0 which is throwing away a lot of chroma information, but ussually is fine for most applications. But lossless webp keeps all color info.