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Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software?
kpoole55 writes "I've been googling for an answer to a question and I'm not making much progress. The problem is image collections, and finding the better of near-duplicate images. There are many programs, free and costly, CLI or GUI oriented, for finding visually similar images — but I'm looking for a next step in the process. It's known that saving the same source image in JPEG format at different quality levels produces different images, the one at the lower quality having more JPEG artifacts. I've been trying to find a method to compare two visually similar JPEG images and select the one with the fewest JPEG artifacts (or the one with the most JPEG artifacts, either will serve.) I also suspect that this is going to be one of those 'Well, of course, how else would you do it? It's so simple.' moments."
A friend of a friend had sex with a mare, but it didn't solve my image comparison problem. His image problem. His.
Hi,
I'm one of those idiots who worked for Tucker on his movie. I won't say what department, but it is considered "crew". I'd like to address some things about him not coming to Shreveport.
1) I've worked on 17 films in the last 2 years. I've worked for numerous producers, but this is the God's honest truth: Tucker was never really a producer. His role on the film was basically "creative", although he tended to try and get his fingers into everything. I've never once seen one person have less respect on a film set than Tucker Max. After a few days of having Tucker tell the crew how to do their jobs we had a long talk with Sean. We were told that we didn't have to listen to him because he was irrelevent on the set. This was the main producer of the movie telling us this, so we listened.
It drove Tucker even more nuts when he would tell the camera crew to do this or the hair/makeup crew to do something his way and we would just say "okay" and go about doing our jobs. If he ever started getting angry, we would tell him to talk to Sean. I don't think he ever got it as this lasted the whole entire film, but it was funny watching him get frustrated. He really thought he was the boss, and in reality he was the equal to some rich kid whose dad was paying people to play with him.
2) Tucker hit on a number of crew members, none of whom wanted anything to do with him. Mostly he fucked a few skanky locals, but that's about it. People are less impressed by a guy like Tucker Max when you've just had the cast and crew of W. in your town.
3) The cast and crew contacted the producers of the movie to see if it was possible to have a cast/crew showing of the movie. When emailed to Tucker, he said something along the lines of "yeah, pay 30 dollars each". Now, I have worked on many films, all of which have come back to Shreveport to show the cast and crew the film we all worked on. We didn't ask Tucker for him to come down with his freak show. We simply asked if we could get a copy of the movie to show to the people who helped make the film possible. That's when we saw the true Tucker Max for what he is: a mean spirited dick. A guy who acts all gracious when he has to, but the second he doesn't need to be nice, he becomes his natural self. If I were Sean, I'd be embarrassed. Sean and Darko will never be able to do another film in Louisiana (we're very tight down here), I'd say Tucker too, but come on, his script was easily one of the worst movies I've ever worked on (and I've done films with 'Part 5' in the title). We know we'll never see another Tucker Max movie.
4) During the actual filming, it was difficult to keep a straight face. First, the dialogue was TERRIBLE, and as nice as Matt, Jesse and Jeff were, they weren't going to make these bad lines sound good. There were times when even Bob Gosse would roll his eyes at some of the garbage lines that actors were forced to say. This infuriated Tucker even more and it ended up costing us time.
5) Tucker would go around the set and ask us questions like "isn't this the best movie you've ever worked on?" or "what's it like working for a genius?" A lot of the crew would just laugh it off, but by day 5 or 6 we realized that he was serious. Finally a couple of us would say stuff like "this is the most brilliant thing I've ever seen on film" and then would see their words on his stupid ass movie blog the next day. We would read it and laugh at Tucker behind his back.
Anyway, there's a lot more to it, but I just wanted to vent to a bunch of people who aren't his fans, because you can add the entire film community of Shreveport to your ranks as well as anybody who comes into contact with him.
Thanks for listening.