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Guy R P.
New member | Level 2
10 years ago
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Does Dropbox reduce the quality of pictures?

I am told that, due to compressing techniques used, (professional) pictures stored loose quality when stored and then downloaded from dropbox. Is that tru?
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    Rich
    10 years ago

    Make sure you're using the Download button to get the original file. If you're using the browser's Save functionality, all you're saving is the preview of the the original file, and not the original.

     

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Dave M.43
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

I'm pretty sure it isn't. If they do compression it is probably lossless, meaning the removal of extraneous/duplicate data which doesn't affect the quality of the image at all. See:
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