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The UK's Most Comprehensive
Car Warranty Guide
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Car Warranty Definition
First of all, what is a car warranty? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a car warranty is: "A written guarantee... promising to repair or replace... within a specified period of time."
The reason for a car warranty purchase is simple – car repairs are an inevitable part of car ownership.
Parts costs, often in 3 or 4 figures – and labour costs of up to £200 per hour – mean car repairs quickly add up. An extended car warranty negates the fear of these escalating costs by providing confidence and peace of mind in the event something goes wrong.
Why me ?
You'll find this dotted around our car warranty guide to highlight where our MotorEasy plan distinguishes itself from the competition.
Find them for an insight into how you can save time and hassle on car repairs.
Choosing A Car Warranty
Comparing car warranties can be tricky. Understanding car warranty documents full of jargon and industry terminology is daunting enough to put many motorists off completely.
Why me ?
All our documents are written in plain English, and we try to always write in language you'll understand. Definitions sit alongside anything that looks unfamiliar – and if you need any help, just ask!
We try to keep car warranty comparisons simple by using a few key differentiators below:
Are failures caused by 'wear and tear' covered?
Don't be confused. The term 'wear and tear' can often be attributed to parts that are bound to wear out in relatively short periods. These are generally referred to as car service or frictional parts which need regular or ad hoc replacement - such as brake pads
All warranties, even from new car manufacturers, won't cover these parts but within the industry they are often termed 'wear and tear' items.
Don't confuse this with "wear and tear" referred to when it comes to selecting your warranty. Every part eventually wears out so the hardest judgement for any warranty provider is to offer cover that protects the owner from big bills without the price of the warranty becoming overly expensive. This is generally achieved by having a "betterment" table so that, as the vehicle's age and mileage increases, some contribution towards the claim cost from the policyholder would be required.
Beware of cover that doesn't cover "usual", "gradual", "general" or "normal" wear and tear or deterioration. MotorEasy knows that around 50pc of failures result from this, with a further 20pc due to "premature wear", so a warranty that doesn't cover all these types of wear and tear will not be paying for many claims.
Usually, true wear and tear coverage commences following an exclusion period, which may be removed given certain conditions.
MotorEasy offers the option of a free vehicle health check allowing wear and tear cover to start immediately after its completion.
Can I use a garage of my choice?
Most warranties allow you to have car repairs carried out at any VAT registered garage. MotorEasy warranties allow motorists to use a garage of their choice or the MotorEasy network - an innovation which brings many consumer benefits (details below).
Does the car warranty cover overheating?
Many potentially expensive car repairs are caused by overheating, yet not all extended car warranty plans include this coverage. All MotorEasy warranties include overheating coverage.
What is the pay-out limit?
The highest level of coverage (included with all MotorEasy warranties) to look for is to the value of the car. Watch out for some car warranty plans that will only cover up to a certain value - in total or a single claim.
Why me ?
The car warranty we've built comes with a few unique benefits to be aware of:
Will the car warranty settle directly with the garage?
Most UK car warranty plans will require you to initially pay for covered car repairs, then reimburse you within a set timeframe (often 30 days). For most motorists, this is a considerable outlay they did not budget for when buying the car warranty. To avoid this issue, MotorEasy has setup a network of 10,000+ UK garages where we will pay them directly for your car warranty repairs.
Will car warranty repairs include collection & return?
Any time your car needs to go to the garage it's inconvenient. With this in mind, MotorEasy can arrange your car to be collected and returned to you with any car warranty repairs carried out by our network of garages.
Will the car warranty company deal with the garage on your behalf?
Let's face it, most motorists dread dealing with garages. A lack of understanding and huge potential costs lead to a stressful relationship at best. That's why with MotorEasy, our engineers deal with garages on your behalf, keeping you informed at every stage via a MotorEasy account.
Frequently Asked Car Warranty Questions
Dealer Extended Car Warranty Vs Direct Car Warranty
If you purchased a used car recently, the dealer may have included or tried to sell you a car warranty with the purchase for peace of mind. These warranties tend to include a considerably lower level of cover, as well as a margin for the dealer. Purchasing a car warranty direct from a provider offers a better price and more consumer focused product, meaning better results for you.
Car Insurance Vs Car Warranty – what's the difference?
Car insurance is a legal requirement, whereas a car warranty is a proactive car ownership purchase. Car insurance protects the car or driver against accident damage. Warranty wise you are protecting a specific car against mechanical and electrical failures.
Comparing Car Warranty Component Coverage
Unlike car insurance, car warranty coverage varies wildly. The car warranty provider will decide which parts of the car they want to cover and build a product which they believe will best protect the customer. Warranties involve a balance between keeping the coverage comprehensive enough for customers and the price low enough to make it an attractive purchase. Wise up to car warranty coverage using our simple checklist to see which key areas are covered – some car warranties don't or will charge extra to include them:
- Air Con System
- Braking System Components
- Clutch System Components
- Electrical Components
- Emission System (Catalytic Converters & Diesel Particulate Filters)
- Engine
- Fuel System
- Ignition System
- In Car Entertainment System
- Steering System
- Suspension System
- Transmission System
- Turbos
You might notice that car warranty coverage includes less of these areas for older cars, this is because the cost to include them would make a car warranty prohibitively expensive.
For performance and high-mileage cars, warranties will often require a Health Check or pre-inspection before being covered. The purpose of this is to confirm there are no pre-existing faults with the car. The benefit of a Health Check is that the car warranty company will often remove their wear and tear exclusion after confirming the car's health.
Why me ?
Most UK motorists don't have an in-depth understanding of the mechanical functioning of a car. They just want to be able to drive in confidence knowing that if anything goes wrong, it will be covered. We understand this, and have built what we believe to be the UK's most comprehensive and inclusive car warranty products.
What Won't A Car Warranty Cover?
Car Warranty protection will never include coverage for faults which were pre-existing at the car warranty start date.
Traditional Warranties vs Discretionary Warranties
Traditionally, UK car warranties have been underwritten by a third party insurer such as via a broker at Lloyd's of London. While, on the surface, this might provide you with some reassurance; in reality, this will add a significant cost to the car warranty price to pay the underwriter's margin. These underwriters also need to signoff car repairs before they are paid, meaning they take longer to proceed.
A discretionary car warranty provides you with the same level of coverage as a traditional car warranty, but by centralising the car repairs fund it means there are no third-party margins to pay (reducing the car warranty price) and your car repairs will be authorised quicker.
When Can You Purchase A Car Warranty?
The only requirement when setting up a car warranty is that it has been serviced in accordance with the manufacturer's requirements. Proof of this will be required should car warranty repairs be needed.
Are There Any Car Warranty Obligations?
To keep a used car warranty valid the car must be serviced according to the manufacturer's guidelines. All car repairs must be authorised by the car warranty provider before they proceed.
Why me ?
With your free MotorEasy account, you'll receive car servicing reminders - as well as the opportunity to book manufacturer equivalent car servicing through the MotorEasy network; up to 40% cheaper than the equivalent car service at a franchised garage. As a discretionary car warranty provider, MotorEasy's car warranty authorisation process is significantly faster, meaning we'll get your car back on the road quicker.
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Overseas Car Warranty Use
Some warranties include coverage for failures that occur while overseas. MotorEasy's plans include up to 60 day's overseas use.
Breakdown Coverage
If the car breaks down at the roadside, motorists who don't have a roadside breakdown policy will need to pay a breakdown provider to recover their car to a garage. MotorEasy will cover up to £150 of this cost as part of a covered repair.
What Is Consequential Damage Or Loss?
Consequential damage/loss is when if a part that's not covered fails, breaking a covered part. A common car warranty example is an alternator belt failing which leads to a timing belt breakage. This can quickly destroy the whole engine –a costly repair – which would be covered even though the alternator belt is not a covered item.
Why me ?
Consequential damage is covered by every MotorEasy car warranty.
Household Appliance Warranty
While MotorEasy doesn't currently offer household appliance warranties, we have extensive experience in this area. The best rule of thumb when considering an extended appliance warranty is that they are more beneficial for more expensive products – for example american fridge-freezers, TVs and luxury devices. We'd advise against warranties on relatively cheap appliances such as kettles and toasters.


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Children's Theatre Company is honored to partner with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help one little girl's dream of participating in the theatre come true. Nine-year-old Kendall has a congenital heart defect and chronic lung disorder. A huge fan of CTC, Kendall wanted to take a class at Theatre Arts Training with her friends, meet the CTC Acting Company (including her personal favorite actor, Reed Sigmund) on a backstage tour, and get the chance to be on stage in a CTC production. We were all so excited to grant these wishes!
On October 12, Kendall and her family attended a performance of Busytown the Musical. At curtain call, Kendall's favorite actor Reed Sigmund announced to the theatre that Kendall's dream of being on stage at Children's Theatre Company would become a reality - a total surprise to Kendall! On December 12, she will play a Who Girl in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Also as part of her wish, Kendall and eight of her friends took a Grinch-themed Theatre Arts Training workshop where they learned acting technique.
We are thrilled to partner with Make-A-Wish and are so happy to have been given the opportunity to fulfill Kendall's wishes.

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We Collect Personal Information You Choose To Provide. You may visit and enjoy many elements of the MLB Properties without disclosing any personal information about yourself. However, if you choose to make use of select, special or enhanced elements of the MLB Properties, you may need to share with us certain personal information so those elements may function properly. When you use certain enhanced elements within the MLB Properties (e.g., create a profile, register for a promotion, make a purchase or publish a comment), the personal information we collect may include, but is not limited to:
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- Contacts (as stored in your wireless device).
If we collect your information, in most instances, the applicable page(s) or location(s) within the MLB Property will include statements regarding what information is required and functionality for you to submit required or requested information.
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- When the personally identifying components of your information are removed, we may use and share such anonymized information for internal purposes amongst MLB Entities (e.g., to learn about the age distribution of our users);
- In accordance with any other permission you provide at the time you submit such information to us; and
- To provide your personal information to other MLB Entities where necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
For customers in the EEA, we are required to give you information about the legal basis on which we process your personal information. In some cases, such as where you have purchased a service, the processing of your personal information will be necessary in order to perform a contract with you. In many other cases, the processing will be necessary for the purpose of legitimate interests we are pursuing, namely the facilitation of the purposes for which your personal information is processed as set out above.
3. Other Information Collected
Technical Information. When you use the MLB Properties, we use software tools, including but not limited to cookies (small amounts of data which include a unique string of characters sent to your browser or application from a website's computers and stored on your computer's or device's hard drive), web beacons (technology used to track activity, also known as pixel tags) and similar technologies, to collect a variety of information, for example the IP address of the computer or device used to access an MLB Property, the type of Internet browser or operating system used to access an MLB Property, the date and duration of a Website visit or the IP address used to access the Website. We use such technical information for internal purposes, for example to study and improve the response times of our Website. We may associate such technical information with personal information you provide to us as described in Section 1 above, in which case we will treat such associated information as personal information. Please be advised that associating technical information with personal information may be required for us, and our Service Providers, to recognize you and your communications with us, for example to retain your newsletter preferences or enable your use of a "shopping cart." Customers within the EEA will be asked for consent prior to the setting of cookies.
Location Data. When you use an MLB Property via a wireless device we may solicit your permission to collect your location data. Some features within our Applications (e.g., live Major League Baseball game video or location-based offers) may only function upon confirmation of your location, and therefore such features will not be available if you choose not to provide your location data to us. The specificity of the location data collected may depend on a number of factors, including the device you are using (e.g., laptop, smartphone, tablet) and how you are connected to the Internet (e.g., via cable broadband connection, WiFi). If you enable location services for our Applications, we may collect location data (e.g., zip code) periodically as you use or leave open our Applications. We use such location information for internal purposes and to improve your MLB Property experience, for example to understand where our users are most successfully accessing the MLB Properties. We may associate such location information with personal information you provide to us as described in Section 1 above, in which case we will treat such associated information as personal information. Depending on the platform you use to access our Applications (e.g., Apple's iOS, Google's Android) you may be able to control whether location data is collected from within "Settings" or other controls on your wireless device or the Applications.
Our Access to Your Contacts. When you use our Games, we may solicit your permission to access your contacts list (e.g., address book) so you can be matched with individuals from your contacts list who participate in our Games and you can invite your friends to play. We will not store the information in your contacts list except to manage your Game invitations.
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To facilitate the activity described above, we use a third party to convert your email address into a unique code (hashed email address), which is then provided to the advertiser.
Other Advertising. We share certain data with Social Networks (as defined below) such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Snapchat to allow us to target existing users and customers with highly relevant advertising campaigns. We will not share your name, address, email address or telephone number for the purposes of such campaigns. Instead, a unique code (hashed email address) is shared with the applicable Social Network in order for that identifier to be matched against existing users of the relevant Social Network and to identify potentially relevant audiences for targeted advertising. We use services such as LinkedIn Matched Audiences and Facebook Custom Audiences for these purposes. If you do not wish to receive advertisements in this way, please follow the links in the paragraph above.
In addition to advertisements for our own goods and services, we may also facilitate third parties to advertise their own goods and services including by targeting those advertisements to those that might be most interested in them. These advertisements may be shown within our Games. This is done using information which does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number and we will not share or sell any of your personal information to third party advertisers. In order to provide advertisements relevant to you, your IP address will be used, as well as your operating system and device type. Information about your particular device will be used to show you advertisements which work properly on that device.
Social Networking. When using the MLB Properties or when using certain third party social networking services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google +) (each a "Social Network"), you may have the option to connect your MLB Property information and activity with your Social Network information and activity. If you authorize such a connection, you permit us to share or publish information about your MLB Property activity with that Social Network and its users, and to access certain of your Social Network information, as disclosed to you at the time you consent to the connection. Information we may share with a Social Network may include, but is not limited to, technical information about your MLB Property activity, your MLB Property comments or the videos you watch on MLB Properties. Information we may access about you, with your consent, from a Social Network may include, but is not limited to, your basic Social Network information, your location data, your list of contacts, friends or followers and certain information about your activities on the Social Network. If you permit a connection between a Social Network and an MLB Property, we (and that Social Network) may be able to identify you and to associate information received pursuant to the connection with information we already have about you. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policy and privacy control options of any Social Network with which you choose to share information or connect to an MLB Property.
Device ID. When you use certain MLB Properties, we or our Service Provider may collect your unique Device ID. We may use such information for internal purposes and to provide you a better MLB Property experience, for example to troubleshoot Application problems you may experience or provide you rewards or offers in connection with your Game activity. We may associate Device ID with personal information you provide to us as described in Section 1 above, in which case we will treat such associated information as personal information. You may learn more about our Service Provider for Mobile Games and opt out of any anonymous Device ID collection via the privacy settings available within your mobile device.
4. Other Circumstances When Your Data May Be Shared
- Aggregated and Anonymous Information. We may share aggregated, anonymous information with any third party. This information is not linked to personal information that can identify you or another individual person. Amongst other reasons, this information may be shared for analytics advertising purposes. As with many websites, we use Google Analytics to understand how you and other visitors engage with MLB Properties. If you don't want Analytics to be used in your browser, you can install the Google Analytics browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout). You can learn more about Google Analytics and privacy here: (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en).
- Business Transfers. As time passes, MLB Advanced Media, L.P. may be sold along with its assets, or other corporate transactions may occur. In such a case, our customer information may be one of the business assets we transfer.
- Disclosure for Legal Purposes. We may be required to share your personal and non-personal information pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants or orders. If we are required to do so, we will, of course, obey the law. In addition, notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to use, disclose or share your personal and non-personal information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of MLB Properties' Terms of Use or as required by law.
5. Transferring Your Personal Information Across Borders
For customers in the EEA we are obliged to provide certain information relating to the transfer of your personal information outside the EEA. Where you have purchased a service, it may often be necessary to transfer your personal information in order to perform a contract with you. In addition, we may in some circumstances rely on your express consent. If you submit personal information to us, or to a Service Provider, via the MLB Properties, you will be voluntarily transferring this personal information to the United States, a jurisdiction which does not provide the same framework as the EEA for the protection of personal information. The same will be the case in relation to your personal information which is collected when you use MLB Properties as specified above.
6. Managing Your Personal Information
You may choose and control what information you provide about yourself and certain information which is automatically collected via the MLB Properties. If you do not wish to provide certain information necessary for enhanced functionality or content on the MLB Properties, please do not use such functionality or content. If you have registered for an account through our Website, you may review and revise certain of your account information by clicking here to log in, and then navigating the left-hand menu options. You may modify your subscriptions to our various promotional email communications and newsletters by accessing the "Email Subscriptions" section within your Website account.
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows a user to accept or reject most cookies. Certain cookies that are set when you access certain video products via the MLB Properties, called local shared objects or Flash cookies, may not be managed using the settings in your web browser. Information on managing, accepting and rejecting these cookies is available from Adobe on the Adobe Website. If you set your browser or Adobe Flash options not to accept cookies or local shared objects, you may not be able to take advantage of certain features of the MLB Properties.
If you want to review or revise the personal information you provided during Website registration or in connection with certain Website purchases, or change the promotional email communications or newsletters you receive from us, you may click here to log in, and then click on the applicable left-hand menu option(s). If you want to review or revise other personal information you have provided to us, or to close your account(s) and have us delete the applicable account personal information (except what is needed for record-keeping purposes) call Customer Service at 866-800-1275.
Remember that when you share information publicly online, it may be indexable by search engines or recorded by others, and any search engine index or record of your information may persist after you delete the information at the original source.
For customers in the EEA, you have the right to see a copy of the personal information that we hold about you, and you may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that this information is accurate and kept up to date.
In addition, subject to limitations as provided for by applicable data protection legislation you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data or the restriction of its processing, or the transfer of your personal data to another data controller. Please contact us as specified below if you wish to do so.
Your personal information will be held for the purposes and uses set out in this Privacy Policy and for as long as there is a legal, taxation, accounting, risk management or business requirement to do so. Different retention periods apply to different types of records and data, however the longest your personal data will typically be held is six (6) years from the date of your last transaction. This period may be extended where circumstances so require or until a particular query, investigation or dispute is fully resolved.
7. Other Information; Contact Us
- No Spyware or Adware. We do not install any Spyware or Adware in connection with the MLB Properties, or distribute any commercial message, or authorize any third party to distribute any commercial message, by means of Spyware or Adware. "Spyware" or "Adware" is any software which has been downloaded to or installed on an Internet user's computer or device, without the user's actual consent, and facilitates the distribution of any commercial message to the user. If you feel you may have Spyware from another company installed on your machine, there are various anti-Spyware/Adware software applications available on the Internet to identify if this has occurred.
- Our Security Practices. The account information associated with the MLB Properties is password protected for your privacy and security. You choose your password for the MLB Properties so the strength of that password is determined by you. We recommend that you choose a unique password and not share your password with anyone else. In certain areas, we use industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions.
- Links. The MLB Properties contain links to other websites and products produced by MLB and to websites and products operated by unrelated third parties. In addition, if you click on an advertisement within the MLB Properties, you may be directed to a web page within the MLB Properties or to a third-party website or product. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites or products, and we encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website and product that collects personally identifiable information from you. This Privacy Policy applies only to the MLB Properties, unless you are notified otherwise upon accessing any third party website or product, in which case the terms and conditions set forth in such notification will apply.
- Your California Privacy Rights. If you are a resident of California, pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83, you may request information regarding our disclosure of your personal information to a third party for that party's direct marketing purposes. Any such disclosure made to a third party by us would be otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. To make such a request please send an email to email@example.com or write to us at: MLB Advanced Media, L.P., Privacy Administrator, 75 Ninth Avenue, New York, New York 10011.
- Your Nevada Privacy Rights. If you are a resident of Nevada, in accordance with Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A, you may request that we do not sell certain of your personally identifiable information (your "Covered Information" as defined in NRS Chapter 603A) by sending a request to firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Special Rules For Children. Because of federal law, we are not permitted to knowingly collect any personal information from a child under the age of thirteen without the consent of that child's parent or guardian. The statements in this Privacy Policy about our collection and use of personal information also apply to our treatment of personal information from children under the age of thirteen. Some elements of the MLB Properties (e.g., shop, ticketing, and auctions) require the submission of a payment card number along with personal information in connection with a purchase; other elements of the MLB Properties (e.g., fantasy baseball) require the submission of personal information to access or use the MLB Properties. Except in certain cases where limited contact information may be collected and not retained, these elements of the MLB Properties are not available to children under the age of thirteen. If a child who we know to be under the age of thirteen and for whom we have not received parental consent attempts to utilize a service on the MLB Properties which is not available to children, he/she will not be able to access it and may receive a message which relays that he/she is not eligible for such feature. For children located in jurisdictions within the EU or EEA, where this Privacy Policy refers to consent, this will require the consent of a parent or legal guardian in relation to any person under the age specified by the law applicable to the location of the child in question.
- Contact Us Regarding Privacy. If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at:
MLB Advanced Media, L.P.
Privacy Administrator
75 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (646) 495-4091
Fax: (212) 485-8111
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Notification of Changes. If we make an important change to this Privacy Policy, we will post a notification and link within the MLB Properties so that you may review the updated policy.
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Simon Cowell may get a very special "American Idol" goodbye this week.
According to People, former judge Paula Abdul will join the show for a "special send-off" to the departing judge.
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Should Paula return, it will be her first appearance on "Idol" since leaving the show prior to the beginning of season 9. She was replaced at the judges' table by Ellen DeGeneres.
The two-night season finale on FOX on Tuesday and Wednesday will pit Crystal Bowersox against Lee DeWyze, and also mark the end of Simon's tenure as the show's lovably critical last word.
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Microsoft released three patches – two of which it deems critical - on Tuesday in the May edition of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle.
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JPG QualityJuly 27, 2005
The age old choice between image quality and file size, thanks to our friend JPG.
One from the inbox this morning. I suppose it couldn't hurt to share my response here:
Let's say you've a JPEG file, a photo straight from your camera-phone, and its filesize is 32k. You open that file into Photoshop, don't make any changes to it, and then want to save it again (don't ask why, you just do). You're asked to choose a quality/compression level. You select one, and save your new image over the old one.
Now, my question is: how do you save the file so that it's not loosing any more detail to the JPEG compression algorithm, but at the same time you're not tripling the file size?
Short answer: you can't.
Because JPG is a lossy compression, no matter what you do with the settings, if you open up a file and re-save it as a JPG, you will lose image quality (whether you perceive it or not).
When you open a JPG, it's converted to the internal bitmapping model of the editor (we'll again assume Photoshop here) and converted to a full, uncompressed 24-bit image. From that point on it's lossless — aside from any quality degradation from the camera's original save — until the point when you save it again.
The JPG algorithm isn't reversible so nothing from the original save influences the new save, which is why you won't be able to achieve an identical file size or quality level. Instead, Photoshop recalculates the compression as if it's working on an uncompressed image, which it technically is. Therefore the results you get when saving are entirely dependent on Photoshop's JPG saving options.
The choice between a huge file size or better image quality is simply a consequence of using a lossy format. The only way to maintain the integrity of the image after the save is to choose a lossless format like PNG or TIF, but then your file sizes suffer. The only way to keep file size down is to drop the quality settings, but then your image suffers.
But hey, we've been dealing with that choice on the web for years now anyway.
Exactly. This is the reason that I shoot in RAW for all my photos. (that and the magic that can be done with exposure with RAW). Though the camera's RAW images are considerably larger, you can use Adobe's DNG format to losslessly compress your images - I use that for my Canon RAW images and save considerable amounts of space.
When I got my first Digi-Cam capable of shooting RAW, I wasn't instantly converted. After experimenting I came to the conclusion that shooting with RAW is best. (my conclusions: http://www.californiafox.com/notebook/photography_raw_versus_jpeg_f.php )
(Photoshop) File > Save for Web…
That should do the trick.
I got my image down from 110kb to 22kb.
Although JPEG is a lossy format, that's not always an issue. Chris (#6) mentioned using Photoshop's Save For Web, which I think is great.
The truth is, that although the image is compressed, and data is lost, it isn't always perceptible, and then one can usually push it a bit more since the eye filters out a fair amount of noise in images.
I think anyone who deals with graphics should do a quick readup on lossy formats like JPEG and lossless formats like PNG and GIF.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part2/ has a reasonable description of the full JPEG algorithm (no actual maths). Note that it's not obvious that a jpeg->jpeg conversion has to loose quality (assuming the quality settings are exactly the same in the first and second saves) because although the initial transformation to jpeg will loose some information irretreviably it looks (to my quick read) like a second transformation would "loose" exactly the same information that's already been discarded (unless the converter just keeps chopping away at things like the luminance). But the decompressor can add extra steps (e.g. smoothing) so that compression and decompression are not reversible and in that case the quality would get worse at constant file size. Moreover much of the algorithm seems to be implementable in a variety of ways and switching between a digital camera with one implementation and photoshop (other bitmap editing packages are, as they say on the BBC, avaliable) with another could cause further problems.
Funny. I too have pondered the same thing for so many years, but don't really do anything about it.
As far as what I'm doing? Basically, it just comes down to whether or not this is going on the web, or if I'm printing it. The choice then, becomes obvious.
What about immediately saving the JPG as a PS doc upon opening? Then do whatever you need to do to it, so the next time you spit it out (as a JPG) you're not saving JPG to JPG but actually PSD to JPG.
I remember reading something about this a while back, at least this is the workflow I use when they absolutely must use a JPG.
For the record, I always shoot raw files…
As some other people mentioned, I guess what you said is not true. As far as I know JPEG compression loses high frequency detailed (DCT base compression) and so if you choose a better quality you will not lose more.
Doesn't JPEG2 offer some solutions to these problems with the original JPEG spec - what's browser support for this format like these days?
There are also a limited set of operations (I think flipping and rotating images were examples) which can be performed without the decompressing/recompressing steps, making them nondestructive.
Off topic but the same applies to MP3, which is also a lossy format.
Re-encoding your MP3 files at a high bitrate won't make them sound better and you'll actually lose some quality.
As with all things to be posted on the internet, store the source in lossless format (PSD in the case of images) and export them in a lossy format if you want to save bandwidth.
It's important to remember that it's just the jpeg -> bitmap -> jpeg that causes the loss. There's specialized lossless algorithms for rotations and color shifts in a lot of image viewers.
Hmm, nice to finally see how JPG really works.
I've been experiencing this JPG loss-loss problem for years, too. Even if you save the file and it's 200% bigger in filesize, it will still look worse.
Only option is a 2gb memory card and a digital camera capable of saving raw images. Gets quite expensive though ;)
RAW really is the best format for shooting, if you have that choice. That puts all compression choices firmly in your own hands, rather than having the camera do it for you. It's more work, but if image quality is important, it's worth it.
With the support now offered in photo organization programs - like iPhoto and Photoshop Album - using RAW images is far easier than it used to be.
Sure, it takes up a bit more space, but when you can get external hard drives for less than $1 per gig, storing the larger images costs far less than one might think.
As Joel Bernstein pointed out, there are indeed operations (cropping, rotating, inserting bitmap with partial recompress) that can be done without loss of quality, though not much tools exist to do that ( Aurigma Graphics Mill being among them, http://www.origma.ru/Support/Help/GraphicsMilldotNET/PhotoImaging.htm ), so, if you find yourself in a need to do some simple operations without quality loss you can take a look at it. Though, as I think that you will post-process your photos, this may not be of much use to you :)
There's a very good FAQ on jpeg and jpeg compression, dating back a few years, at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/
Item 10 is especially relevant here. A partial quote -
"It turns out that if you decompress and recompress an image at the same quality setting first used, relatively little further degradation occurs. This means that you can make local modifications to a JPEG image without material degradation of other areas of the image. (The areas you change will still degrade, however.) Counterintuitively, this works better the lower the quality setting. But you must use *exactly* the same setting, or all bets are off. Also, the decompressed image must be saved in a full-color format; if you do something like JPEG=>GIF=>JPEG, the color quantization step loses lots of information.
Unfortunately, cropping doesn't count as a local change! JPEG processes the image in small blocks, and cropping usually moves the block boundaries, so that the image looks completely different to JPEG. You can take advantage of the low-degradation behavior if you are careful to crop the top and left margins only by a multiple of the block size (typically 16 pixels), so that the remaining blocks start in the same places. (True lossless cropping is possible under the same restrictions about where to crop, but again this requires specialized software.)
The bottom line is that JPEG is a useful format for compact storage and transmission of images, but you don't want to use it as an intermediate format for sequences of image manipulation steps. Use a lossless 24-bit format (PNG, TIFF, PPM, etc) while working on the image, then JPEG it when you are ready to file it away or send it out on the net. If you expect to edit your image again in the future, keep a lossless master copy to work from. The JPEG you put up on your Web site should be a derived copy, not your editing master."
A lot of JPG's position is due to that it has been around since the web started and it was supported by the browsers from day one of the web. It is hard for a new and better algorithm to break through and become de facto.
Ok … and so?
PS: There is a beautiful "Save for Web" option in Adobe Photoshop :)
Don't want to be pedantic, but I'll look like I am anyway.
You 'lose' image quality - loose laces will trip you up - and all this as a comment about a lossy file format.
My image manipulation usually involves overly big JPGs from digital cameras, intermediate stages of the process are in The GIMP's natural format of XCF - which like PSD has layers and other goodies - then you save to PNG / JPG [ or GIF if you're desparate ] for the web.
As someone else has rightly pointed out :
desparate != desperate
my very own misspelling : ]
I stopped keeping things as JPGs a while back. Now all my images get saved as PSDs with the RAW (or sometimes JPG) originals archived just in case. My photos folder is just starting to approach my music folder in size… Scary!
I could do with a decent online service to archive all the originals. I've had so much hardware trouble that I just don't trust my current method of mirroring my HD to an external drive.
The use of the word "loose" when you mean "lose" is very annoying. Not only does it occur in comment 8, but in the quoted email in the main post! I have seen this mistake so often that I can only conclude it is something our minds cannot easily fathom. Either that or people are reading a lot less, which I doubt.
Back on topic, the JPEG2000 format features a lossless setting. Of course no browsers support it yet, I believe.
The MaPiVi Picture viewer and organizer for UNIX, Mac OS X and Windows is able to do lossless rotation and cropping.
MaPiVi is a stand alone tool, there is no need for a web server, online access or a database.
I think that the original question was a great one! But if you're cropping, or rotating a picture look at MaPiVi:
Gif is not lossless if you have a picture taken from a camera, as you talk about in your example. Gif is even worse than JPEG as it can store, what is it, 255 colors maximum.
PNG on the other hand is ok, in that it can save losslessly, but Photoshop doesn't do a good job saving it - there are different compression techniques when saving as PNG. Try PNG Crush, and I think you'll get both your quality and file-size.
One thing - there are some reviews of PNG Crush around the net stating that it doesn't compress much more than photoshop - this is not correct - it all depends on the image. I tried images (100x50 approx.) featuring semi- and non-transparent pixels and the resulting size was 33% of photoshop's image.
define:jpeg => Joint Photographic Experts Group
Always thought about this issue when resaving a jpeg-file. But was a nice read and something I will remember everytime I do save another one ; )
I found this handy little tool to show show how much image information has been lost with different levels of compression or different formats. It's free too, which is nice, but Windows only.
When I compare images I look at how much the Color information has changed rather than the Pixel percentage to gauge the relative quality of the compression.
Just a note that gif files can be saved with the same quality if the same color settings are used on the save.
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I was using a program by Ulead a few years back… it spells out like SmartSaver Pro (used version 3.0). It is the best gif/jpeg optimizer I've seen and I haven't seen or heard any application that compares.
Jpeg is a cool format. Why replace it? If it is not broken, embrace it!
People have been posting here their personal views about how JPEG works and whether it loses information or not when they do the JPEG->lossless->JPEG thing.
The answer to this question is not a matter of personal view, but the sad truth is: it depends. And most of times this translates to 'yes, you will lose quality'.
As pooya (#11) said, JPEG compression loses high frequency detail by eliminating DCT transform coefficients. Which coefficients are discarded depends on the quality setting you choose AND on the encoder design. The truth is different encoders make different choices as to what will be discarded. The JPEG standard suggests using certain matrices, but encoder designers are free to make their own.
Conclusion: if you use the same quality settings AND the same encoder (or one with identical design), you won't lose quality on unchanged blocks - like Thomas Passin (#4) said, JPEG processes the image in square blocks and each block is processed as a whole. Most of the time though, you will have absolutely no guarantee that the different encoders you are using have identical design. This means your images will lose quality.
The same can be said of mp3. It has been designed to avoid quality loss on multiple encode/decode operations, but that depends on using encoders that make identical choices on what to eliminate when compressing.
In case this is news to anybody, and hopefully helpful to someone, there are SLR and all-in-one cameras that support TIFF in addition to or instead of RAW. My Olympus UZ700 lets me shoot in TIFF (but not RAW).
Shooting in RAW requires you to use a utility provided by the camera maker to convert to a usable format before editing (unless I misunderstand, every make has their own RAW format).
Shooting in TIFF sounds like a big time saver when it actually comes to editing images in this case. The main and only disadvantage I have read about is that it usually takes quite a bit longer for a camera to write to the memory card in TIFF or RAW rather than JPG, so you'll get fewer shots per second. My camera is old and slow so it is probably a bad indicator, but I probably get close to one shot per second (a little slower than that) in JPG while it takes somewhere between 6 and 8 seconds (I rarely use it obviously) to write a TIFF to the card.


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Sanity Checks
Here we will quickly go over some commands to test basic functionality of miriad: getting the data into miriad and displaying this data using pgplot routines. We also suggest to install ds9 and the associated XPA tools. Although mostly for images and cubes, it can also be used to browse your visbility data bricks. An additional, image cube visualization package we recommend for Miriad is karma
X windows and your OS shell
Linux uses the X11 windowing system, on the Mac this is an option and you need to have it installed via Xcode. Although in principle you can operate out of X windows, you probably should have it. Test it:
% xterm
You should also check what your default login shell is. It should be sh (most likely bash) or csh (most likely tcsh). The examples below, where they matter, are using csh-style. Notably on MacOSX there are two ways you have to set your login-shell (Terminal->Preferences and xterm w/ chsh) !! need to verify this statement !!
Notably how you start MIRIAD depends on your login shell:
% source miriad_start.csh
for the csh family, and
$ source miriad_start.sh
for the sh family.
Image Data and Display
Generating an image and displaying it in miriad:
% imgen out=map0 % hexdump -C map0/header | tail ... 000001c0 6e 61 78 69 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 |naxis...........| 000001d0 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 |........|
The important thing to note is the last line, if endianism is wrong on your machine, the last 4 bytes might read as 2,0,0,0 instead of 0,0,0,2. As in FITS files, data in miriad are stored in a big-endian fashion, which means on intel chips (little-endian) data will need to be byte swapped.
Now display the data using ds9:
% implot in=map0 device=/xs % ds9 & % mirds9 map0
And to make sure your random number generator works:
% imgen out=map1 object=noise spar=1 % histo in=map1 | grep Rms Mean -3.29890E-04 Rms 9.99046E-01 Flux -2.16197E+01 Jy (65536 points)
Visibility Data and Display
Getting a Carma visibility dataset from the archive and displaying some basic properties of the data. The example below is a shortcut that may not work in the future. It is 0.5MB in size, and also available from our anonymous ftp:
% wget -O - http://carma-server.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8181/data//fringe.3C273.2008jun18.4.miriad.tar.gz | tar zxf - or % curl http://carma-server.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8181/data//fringe.3C273.2008jun18.4.miriad.tar.gz | tar zxf -
% itemize in=fringe.3C273.2008jun18.4.miriad itemize: Version 1.4, 2008/02/19 20:06:29 UTC obstype = mixed-auto-cross nwcorr = 6552 ncorr = 98280 vislen = 545232 wflags (integer data, 212 elements) vartable (text data, 650 elements) history (unknown data, 0 elements) visdata (binary data, 545228 elements) flags (integer data, 3171 elements)
On MacOSX (not sure intel, ppc or both) the output of nwcorr/ncorr/vislen may look different, which is related to the compiler not able to print integer*8. This seems to work fine on linux (32 and 64 bit).
% uvplt vis=fringe.3C273.2008jun18.4.miriad device=/xs
% uvio fringe.3C273.2008jun18.4.miriad > flux.log
WIP: a pgplot based plotting package
Give the following commands to see if you have your environment setup correctly:
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% wip -d /gif WIP> box WIP> end
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% wip -d /xs WIP> image map0 WIP> header rd rd WIP> halftone WIP> end
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% wip -d /xs WIP> image map0 WIP> header rd rd WIP> halftone WIP> end
should show just a blob in the center.
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- Assuming your Miriad is CVS enabled (i.e. you will see the $MIR/CVS directory), you should test if you can update Miriad using cvs:
% cd $MIR % cvs -nq update
If this failed with a command not found, cvs should be installed. Another failure mode is not having a ~/.cvspass entry for the anonymous access to the UMD cvs server. For this do:
% cvs login % cvs -nq update
- Testing to see if you can compile a subroutine or program, try these:
% mirboss % mir.subs fitsio % mir.prog itemize
- To update Miriad, you can update the source tree from its root:
% cd $MIR % cvs update
now carefully watch files passing by on your screen. Any preceded with ? are ok, they are not in CVS control. But anything with M (locally modified) could be suspect, the U or P are files that were updated/patched, and a C is a disaster: a CVS conflict occured. You will need to resolve this, e.g. by renaming/removing the offending file, and updating that file again.
Software Development (new build)
The new build system should be easier to use and is normally installed under $MIR/build. The commands just take a bit longer. After a CVS update:
% cd $MIR % cvs update
you should be able to test if the new code works:
% make
and if so, install it
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Dems tap Obama donor network
Julianna Smoot was there from the very beginning of Barack Obama's first presidential campaign, giving the Illinois senator a simple, yet daunting assignment: call a list of donors and convince them to pitch in as much as they could to a campaign expected to eventually lose to Hillary Clinton.
Those donor lists over the years developed into a sprawling network of bundlers, which helped Obama shatter fundraising records twice, raising $880 million in 2008 and more than $ 1 billion in 2012.
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Now, Smoot hopes to tap that Obama donor network for two separate causes: the new Organizing for Action nonprofit group and Senate Majority PAC, the Democratic super PAC tied to Majority Leader Harry Reid.
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OFA is the offshoot of Obama's 2012 presidential campaign that has pledged to be non-partisan but is controlling Obama's Twitter account and advocating for White House priorities including gun control and immigration.
Other former Obama campaign and White House veterans are also working for OFA, but group officials — and Obama — have repeatedly said the new group's mission is clear and distinct from electoral politics because it's organized around issues.
"OFA is organized around issues rather than 2014," Obama told House Republicans at a meeting last month.
Smoot said she sees no problem with doing both jobs.
"I'm passionate about both groups. I'm a Democrat, so I want to make sure Democrats keep the majority in the Senate," she said in a wide-ranging interview.
"And with [OFA], I want to help in ways that don't conflict," she said. "I feel very strongly about both of them."
Smoot's transition from the presidential campaign to two outside groups reflects the Democrats' reluctant embrace of the kind of big money groups they railed against post- Citizens United and other court decisions in recent years.
"Look, all of us would like to see less money in politics," she said. "But we're going to have to make sure Democrats can compete."
Smoot acknowledged that OFA hasn't had a smooth ride since its inception, saying criticism that the organization was selling access to the White House was totally overblown.
"This is just different from anything that's happened after a president's re-election so people were like, 'Wait, what's happening? "This is a way to keep the phenomenal grassroots network we created during the campaign, and you'll see the success of OFA," Smoot said.
In addition to serving on the OFA board and Senate Majority PACs board for outreach and fundraising, she is considering opening open up her own consulting firm.
And rather than handing out the donor lists, she's the one making the calls this time.
"It's interesting that someone else is doing the day-to-day work," Smoot said. "They'll tell me, 'Can you please call these donors?' And now I'm the one getting the assignments."
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One of the biggest financial backers of Obama's first presidential run, Chicago business executive, Penny Pritzker, worked closely with Smoot when the campaign was just getting off the ground. She described Smoot as a a "talent magnet" and an "incredible force" in an email to POLITICO.
"Julianna is an accomplished manager, leader and effective team player. Her knowledge base is broad and deep which makes her an asset to any organization with which she is involved," said Pritzker, considered the front-runner to be Obama's next Commerce Secretary nominee.


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Introducing Triumph's new 2018 collection, an exciting combination of new styles and firm favourites, in addition Triumph are pleased to announce a new partnership– with Gore-Tex®, the globally renowned technical 'all-weather' protection brand.
This is a totally unique relationship, making Triumph the only motorcycle brand with a fully in-house designed range incorporating Gore-Tex® technology, and the only European motorcycle brand with an in house developed 'pro-shell' riding suit –with Gore-Tex®.
In 2018 we have introduced a new stylish line-up of Men's and Women's designs, which not only includes technical adventure clothing in three families of jackets and trousers, plus gloves, but also extends into our classic rider wear. All will come with the latest generation of D3o® armour.
Each Triumph product is designed and developed in our state of the art facilities in Hinckley, UK. Our small dedicated clothing development team ensure that the products are developed, manufactured and tested to meet our stringent performance standards. We obsess about the performance, the function and the ergonomics of the clothing so our customers don't have to and can simply enjoy their ride.
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No compromise on wearing your favorite leather jacket in the rain. This classic-style jacket features state-of-the-art technology, so it can be worn in any weather. The Raven GTX is equipped with a Z-liner Gore-Tex® membrane for excellent, waterproof and breathable properties, as well as a full set of D3O® protectors and vents for maximum ventilation at higher temperatures.Discover more
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Z-Liner construction means that the GORE-TEX® membrane is bonded to a lightweight carrier fabric and is then freely suspended between the garments outer layer and lining. These jackets also feature inner storm cuffs and an optional additional soft sell jacket liner (sold separately) to enable the rider to regulate and maintain a comfortable core body temperature.Discover more
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Constructed from GORE-TEX® Pro 3L Misano fabric and reinforced with Armacor® product technology, this stylish jacket and jean combination is designed to create a pro-suit that delivers the ideal combination
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Lite Denim Riding Jeans
The Lite denim riding jeans are constructed from ProModal denim with 2% lycra for exceptional comfort and flexibility when riding, in conjunction with Pekev® abrasion resistant material.
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Timeless styling, the Hoxton, Charlotte & Snowdon discreetly hide a Gore-Tex® membrane z-liner for optimal waterproof, windproof protection and breathability.
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In addition D3o® impact protectors are used throughout.
An eye-catching all-weather jacket that incorporates waterproof breathable Gore-Tex Z-liner membrane for riding comfort, Texland fabric to offer comfort and flexibility and adjustable D3o shoulder, elbows and back protectors for even more peace of mind.


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