JPEG Compression Percent (What does this mean?)

[shuban]

Can you explain what this is:

JPEG Compression Percent

I have it as 100 percent...

I don't want the quality of the images upload to change, why was it at 65?

[SMFHacks]

The default for SMF/attachments uploads was 65 the gallery system modifies this and keeps it at 65.
The higher the image quality the more file space is used for the thumbnails.

[shuban]

Oh, so this has to do with the quality of the thumbnails produced or the overall quality of the image. I have unlimited space on my server. I just don't want the quality of the original image to decrease once uploaded.

I just want to make sense of this before I upload more images...

On gallery lite, what was the percentage used?

[SMFHacks]

It is used for any resizing of jpeg based images. Either thumbnail, medium sized images or resizing if too large is allowed.

Lite used 65 as well since that is the default of SMF

[shuban]

If I change it to 100 percent, will that disable the resizing?

[SMFHacks]

Not it won't disable resizing.

[shuban]

Not it won't disable resizing.

Okay, so is there any way of disabling it, SMFHacks?

[SMFHacks]

There is a setting to enable/disable picture resizing if too large under gallery settings