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Hello everyone.

I faced the following problem.
I have the increased file size for some JPG files after any manipulation with ImageMagick.

For example, my code for image optimization:
convert -sampling-factor 4:2:0 -strip -quality 55 -interlace JPEG -colorspace sRGB -define jpeg:fancy-upsampling=off source.jpg source-1.jpg

Source file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b_2axs ... sp=sharing
Size of the source file: 188 kb
Size after optimization: 233 kb

This happens and after cropping of the file.

For example, I received the file with identical file size via jpgtran tool.

So, I want to understand why this happens. Which parameter in the source file affected by this result?
Is it possible to reduce or save source file size after manipulation in ImageMagick?

Thanks.

Your source file says "You need permission".

IM reads and decompresses the image. Then it processes the image in-memory. Then it compresses and saves the image. The compression settings are probably different from those that originally saved the source. For JPEG, "-quality" adjusts the size versus fidelity trade-off.

"-define jpeg:extent=XXX" may be useful to you.

> Your source file says "You need permission".
Permissions were changed. You can see the file now.

Using ImageMagick identify -verbose, your source file shows Filesize: 193378 B (193 KB) and Quality: 55

Using
which shows, Filesize: 239460 B (239 KB) and Quality: 55

My guess is that your input file was generated with some other set of q tables and/or optimized.

ImageMagick uses libjpeg, which may use a different set of q tables and may not do as good a job optimizing. You may need to find some other jpeg optimizer tool.