Edit: Please note, according to this official help page: If you edit photos in Google Photos, those changes will not show in Google Drive. Then select the image, and either press shift+r, or in the top right corner choose 'more options'> Rotate. It looks fine, unless you’ve compressed it to holy hell (or if it’s not a typical continuous tone photographic print. Please once in that page, read below 'View & edit photos stored in Google Drive using Google Photos'. But I don’t freak out if I need to make a print of a JPEG of a JPEG. I keep RAW files of every last thing I shoot. Yes, ideally you always want to keep the highest possible quality file around. To be honest, if you use fairly high quality settings for your JPEG compression, an extra pass through the algorithm is not going to be noticeable for the vast majority of photographic data (I’m not talking line drawings and the like here.) In fact, I make prints of JPEGs of JPEGs all the time (at 80% quality setting), and darned if I can tell the difference. If you save your rotated JPEG in a lossless format, you will not. If you resave a JPEG as a JPEG, you will lose some data. Do you know if Photoshop does this by default? I’ve been using Photoshop to rotate images for a long time (among other things, of course) and it never occurred to me that I might be compressing it further with every single rotation.Īs far as I know, Photoshop doesn’t do lossless JPEG rotation.

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