JPEG compression.

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We're running version 4.86 vB3 Enhanced over at our website (http://photos.clubplanet.com)...

The one thing that I'm noticing is that the images seem to be compressed a little too much for my liking....lots of nasty artifacts, color banding, things like that.

At first I thought it was due to the shooters having high compression settings on their cameras...but it doesn't seem to be the case, as I myself shoot for the page, and I keep my camera (10D digital SLR) on the maximum quality, and my JPEGs out of Photoshop are set on "12".

What I'm wondering is, does the software recompress the images when they are posted, and if so, I need to be able to change this to a less aggressive setting. The point and shoot shooters could care less, but we have a few pros on staff (including me!), who are pretty picky about image presentation quality and the like....

Thanks for any help

dan

[Chuck S]

Basically the quality setting is in the upload photo options. I think by default it is set to 70 you can try and raise this to 90 or 100 if you want little to no compression.

[ldk]

I was just having this same problem. I had it set to GD1, quality=70 and it was really mucking with JPEG images. Like totally changing the colors, and making them look bad.

So I changed the quality to 100 and iot didn't help.

Then I changed the setting from GD1 to GD2 and now it works great.

Hope this will help!

[Michael P]

GD1 is not a very good imaging library; mainly because it only works in 8-bits (if I remember correctly).