I have added an image to try to show you what I mean.
https://imgur.com/0RUGIuf
The images I am using are black text on a white background. You can notice the difference after the conversion. If you zoom in, the converted image has extra distortion around the text and is not the same as the original.
I did test the Format and Compression and saved it as JPG set at 100. This improves the quality, but it is still not the same as the original. I tried converting to PNG with 0 compression, and this keeps the same image quality from what I can see.
My original JPG files were from Photoshop, and an image was around 900 KB in size. The same image from the bimp plugin came out at 456 KB and with the JPG quality set to 100 is 733 KB so something is being removed. It may just be the cropped space reduceing the size. The PNG files are over 10 MB which is not ideal, but I do need to do further editing and can reduce this file size later with something like the RIOT tool.
I will test this further and see how it goes. Thank you for your help.
I have also noticed the JPG files I have exported from Photoshop will not read in the BIMP Plugin. When I open directly in GIMP it is asking to import the Image from a color profile. I may need to save them in a different way from Photoshop.
https://imgur.com/0RUGIuf
The images I am using are black text on a white background. You can notice the difference after the conversion. If you zoom in, the converted image has extra distortion around the text and is not the same as the original.
I did test the Format and Compression and saved it as JPG set at 100. This improves the quality, but it is still not the same as the original. I tried converting to PNG with 0 compression, and this keeps the same image quality from what I can see.
My original JPG files were from Photoshop, and an image was around 900 KB in size. The same image from the bimp plugin came out at 456 KB and with the JPG quality set to 100 is 733 KB so something is being removed. It may just be the cropped space reduceing the size. The PNG files are over 10 MB which is not ideal, but I do need to do further editing and can reduce this file size later with something like the RIOT tool.
I will test this further and see how it goes. Thank you for your help.
I have also noticed the JPG files I have exported from Photoshop will not read in the BIMP Plugin. When I open directly in GIMP it is asking to import the Image from a color profile. I may need to save them in a different way from Photoshop.