{"id":880,"date":"2014-06-21T12:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T19:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2014-06-21T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T19:18:28","slug":"i-just-saved-a-gig-of-hd-space-in-90-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/21\/i-just-saved-a-gig-of-hd-space-in-90-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"I just saved a gig of HD space in ~90 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026without losing any files or visual quality. 1.5GB of storage is now down to 500MB.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Lightroom select some raw files.<\/li>\n<li>Select Library-&gt;Convert to DNG.<\/li>\n<li>Choose \u201clossy&#8221; compression.<\/li>\n<li>Choose to delete the originals (scary sounding, but it shouldn\u2019t be).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honestly I\u2019m thinking the misleading &#8220;lossy&#8221; option should be called <em>\u201cvisually lossless,\u201d<\/em> because <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/heresy-should-i-just-wholesale-blow-away-my-raw-files\/\">as I demonstrated the other day<\/a>, there\u2019s almost zero chance you\u2019ll ever be able to perceive a difference between this &amp; the lossless compression option. (You\u2019d have to crank up a very dark photo by more than 4 exposure stops.)<\/p>\n<p>Pass it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026without losing any files or visual quality. 1.5GB of storage is now down to 500MB. In Lightroom select some raw files. Select Library-&gt;Convert to DNG. Choose \u201clossy&#8221; compression. Choose to delete the originals (scary sounding, but it shouldn\u2019t be). Honestly I\u2019m thinking the misleading &#8220;lossy&#8221; option should be called \u201cvisually lossless,\u201d because as I demonstrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}