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15mb is the key limiter for F95 uploads, besides if you are uploading 4K jpgs that meet that 15 mb limit you aren't really doing yourself any favors, since jpg compression is not lossless. When you set JPEG quality to 100, no real DCT quantization takes place but you are likely carrying out chrominance subsampling. With this behavior, information is lost, even when no quantization happens. JPEG encoding implies going to the DCT quantization domain, which causes rounding of coefficients. Rounding discards some information. This will happen regardless of all other options.That does not make much sense. Upon downscaling you are compressing the pixels, which should reduce the noise if anything. In fact, that's a well-known technique, from what I've gathered since I started to get interested in Daz.
As for uploading 4K images, go for it. As long as each one is below the 15 MB mark, you should be able to upload them directly to F95zone servers. I usually upload 4K renderings in here. I could understand your hesitation and your consideration towards others' bandwidth if you flooded the thread with your work, but that's not the case. And it's not only me who post 4K renders in here BTW.
I know this is more technical than most people want to delve into, but we should all know as artists that when we save our images as jpegs, even at the highest quality, we still compress the information and that compression discards information that is lost forever. That is the very reason why you have photograhers like Jared Polin and others almost always use RAW formats so loses do not creep into their workflow.
Yes, there is a lossless jpeg compression but so little supports it, that it is almost never used.
Using png files is a whole other discussion.
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