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does Dropbox compressed photo files???
I'm sending full resolution photo files to clients instead of burning them on a disc, but I want to make sure they are the full resolution. I had a client that had pictures made at Walgreens, and the...
I uploaded a 107.5MB TIFF file to Dropbox using a desktop browser, then downloaded the file. I then compared the file in my download folder to the source file.
Both were exact matches down to the byte: 107,525,5436 bytes.
I then checked for JPG. Also an exact match 9,177,764 bytes.
Then I checked CR2 files (Cannon's proprietary file extension)
Drumroll...both files were 23,921,835 bytes.
If you are using some mobile app to upload your photos...switch to desktop if you care about such things, but blame the right party.
Last I checked, I do not work for Dropbox, nor do I own any stock. If you call someone a liar, you better be able to back it up at least as well as dropbox backs up your files.
Dropbox is not compressing my photos.
I've placed a full-res shot at 6016x4016 in my dropbox folder, which is then synced to the dropbox servers.
Then I went to dropbox.com and downloaded that same file and compared the two.
Same exact file size, same resolution, all the same exif data except dropbox added one extra exif line to say it was downloaded from dropbox.
I'm doing all this from my Macbook Pro and not from an iPhone or Android.
In fact, I use dropbox for work, which involves high-res PSD's, pngs, jpgs, and gifs - they are never compressed either.
