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style_system2017-05-30 05:40 pm
carisma_sensei) wrote in style_system2017-05-30 05:40 pm
Graphic image quality issues
I know this isn't really related to the styles in Dreamwidth, but I don't know where to ask about this and, since most of us make graphics and use them in our layouts, I thought it would be a good place to ask for help. Please feel free to delete or ignore if irrelevant.
I noticed that when uploading graphics that are high quality (imagine, a Header that I want to use in a DW layout), the image gets reduced no matter what image hosting I use. In fact, when I preview it in my computer, it looks good, high quality and all that. But once I upload it to, say, imgur, it looks like they rescaled it a bit! Like they made it a bit bigger, I don't know why.
If I zoom out the browser, the image looks just like I saved it to my PC. But once I put the browser's zoom back to normal, it looks like they compressed the image and made it bigger too.
I don't know if this has happened to any of you, but being a designer and graphic maker, I'm a bit sad about this and I don't know what gives. Have you experienced this? I've had this with every image hosting service I tried. Am I going crazy? xD I don't do anything different and have been making graphics since 2006 so believe me I'm a bit confused about this.
I noticed that when uploading graphics that are high quality (imagine, a Header that I want to use in a DW layout), the image gets reduced no matter what image hosting I use. In fact, when I preview it in my computer, it looks good, high quality and all that. But once I upload it to, say, imgur, it looks like they rescaled it a bit! Like they made it a bit bigger, I don't know why.
If I zoom out the browser, the image looks just like I saved it to my PC. But once I put the browser's zoom back to normal, it looks like they compressed the image and made it bigger too.
I don't know if this has happened to any of you, but being a designer and graphic maker, I'm a bit sad about this and I don't know what gives. Have you experienced this? I've had this with every image hosting service I tried. Am I going crazy? xD I don't do anything different and have been making graphics since 2006 so believe me I'm a bit confused about this.
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I think a lot (all?) of the free image hosting sites will perform some sort of optimizations... imgur may have changed their algorithms recently? I'm not sure why they're messing with the actual sizing, though. And if the file size of this header is very large, that could be the issue. It seems like imgur's limit is pretty big, though. https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000083326-What-files-can-I-upload-
Could also be if you have a higher resolution monitor, the picture is bigger than it seems to you. I've noticed that Photoshop especially has some weird stuff going on about pixel density and tends to make pictures look smaller than they do in image preview on the same monitor. And I know when I take screencaps on retina, they end up double-sized on 1:1 ratio monitors.
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Yes! It deffinitely looks like the image is smaller in Photoshop and then when I upload and use it, it looks bigger? I don't know, it's been a while since I coded or made anything graphics wise (I came back to it last week) but in all the experience I've had in graphics and layout making, I've never had this happen.
That being said, I have a huge monitor at the moment so maybe it's messing a bit with the images...in some way I don't understand xD
Anyway, thanks for the reply, seems like there's not much I can do about it so I'll just have to get used to it ^^