Contact: Jeff Brown at (860) 961-8243 or Registration forms available at the Ledyard Parks and Recreation Office and the Ledyard Library. Rising Star Basketball School - June 23-25, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., and Aug. Contact: Dave Vitale, (860) 428-4768 or e-mail Girls' Summer Basketball Camp - June 28-July 2, Ledyard H.S., 9 a.m.-noon. Fee: $100 per child, $85 for the second or third child in a family. Contact: Ledyard Parks and Recreation, (860) 464-9112.Ĭonn College Basketball Camps - June 28-July 1, 9:30-11 a.m. Contact: Tom Satran (860) 439-2565 or e-mail Annual St. Thomas More Basketball Camp - Sessions from June 28-July 2 and July 12-16, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Contact: Coach Jere Quinn, (860) 823-1845.Ĭonn College Girls Basketball Camp - Day camp July 26-30 for girls ages 7-15. Contact: Brian Wilson (860) 439-2781 or e-mail Pride - Seeking players for 2009 season (boys ages 13-16 are eligible). SEC Chargers - Seeking players to compete on U16 spring AAU girls' team. Fee: $350 (includes practices, games and uniforms). You can grab the new test images here.Practices run from end of March through June. Because Google only allows a max photo size of 16 megapixels and the original test image was 24 MP, I downloaded the RAW format shot and resized it down to 16 MP in Photoshop before starting the test. This time around, I used a studio test image taken by a Nikon D750 DSLR ($ 2000 camera) taken from DPReview. The original image was just a photo taken on an 2014 Moto X. Next, I redid the comparison with a slightly better image. No pain no gain, I guess, but even so, I think it exhibits remarkably little degradation consider it is nearly a 100% improvement over either Google or JPEGmini’s algorithms alone. The biggest jump in image quality degradation is from applying JPEGmini to an already Google-compressed image. JPEGmini’s compression is good, too, eeking out an extra 40% compression over Google’s while still causing relatively little damage to the original photo. The original, uncompressed image was only very slightly altered by Google’s method, and yet it still was able to nearly cut the filesize in half. What should be immediately clear is that Google’s compression algorithm was the least degrading by a long shot. Of course, the double-compressed image has the most notable degradation of image quality, but even so, it is so minor that, I think, it is still almost certainly unnoticeable in large photographs.įinally, for a more rigorous analysis of the actual differences between each of the four test cases (original, Google, JPEGmini, Google+JPEGmini), I loaded them up in Photoshop and used the difference layer effect to calculate the actual changes in the original image that the compression algorithms performed. Most remarkable of all, though, is that by combining the two–Google and then JPEGmini–it doubled the compression even of the already-compressed image! On the other hand, JPEGmini manages to eek out an extra 40% compression with only trivial image degradation. The reduction in image quality is almost imperceptible, yet it manages to nearly cut the file size in half. In my personal opinion, all four images have the same perceptual image quality. So I a did a little test with a bright image to compare JPEGmini’s compression with Google’s compression. If you analyze the uncompressed and compressed images with a computer, you can see differences - but by eye, they look identical. Like JPEGmini, Google claims to be able to apply lossy compression to images without changing the perceptual quality of the image. The unlimited part comes with a caveat: Google will apply lossy compression to your files. As far as I can tell, its claims are pretty accurate, and it has literally helped me cut the size of some of my picture folders in half.Īs I’m sure most of you are aware, Google just unveiled Google Photos, and with it announced unlimited storage space for photos and videos. Its compression of JPEGs is lossy, but it claims to do so leaving the perceptual image quality virtually unchanged. I’ve been using a program called JPEGmini for a couple years now to compress my JPEG images. In this article I will take a look at Google Photos’ new photo compression performance.
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