Thumbnail blurry

angkor408 · August 3rd, 2006, 09:51 AM

Hi, I recently installed photopost but for some reason the thumbnail is blurry. Here my site

http://www.khmerclub.org/gallery

For: Imaging Integration (IM or GD)
Select ImageMagick or GD1/GD2 for image processing I use ( GD1)

Any other option I can make my thumbnail more clearer? Thank Tim

Chuck S · August 3rd, 2006, 10:01 AM

Check what GD version you have if you have GD2 select GD2 as your image processor.

angkor408 · August 3rd, 2006, 10:14 AM

Hi chuck I just change my Imaging Integration under GLOBAL OPTION:

(IM or GD)
Select ImageMagick or GD1/GD2 for image processing : I change to GD2.

Where can I edit the image option at?

sinjix · November 26th, 2006, 08:50 PM

i just switched to imagemagic, but my thumbnails still seem a bit blurry.
i dont get any error messages when i rebuild my thumbnails or anything.
my imagemagic path is /usr/bin/mogrify - is there something i have done wrong?

Chuck S · November 26th, 2006, 10:15 PM

blurry? you have an example always helps

angkor you either have GD install or not you can see in phpinfo in admin. Once we see what version of GD you have installed you can in global options set the correct one GD2 or GD1

sinjix · November 27th, 2006, 12:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

blurry? you have an example always helps

http://www.ny-dev.com/forums/gallery/
vs.
http://www.texasphotoforum.com/gallery/

Chuck S · November 27th, 2006, 07:25 AM

I really dont see any picture difference. I think it is personal perception. That dark style does not make the pictures pop out quite so nice as the light style colors do but the thumbnails both are clear on both sites that I see

sinjix · November 30th, 2006, 02:33 PM

no - im pretty sure now that it is not converting the way it should. The images are definitely more blurry. I have no idea why. Does anyone have any ideas?

Chuck S · November 30th, 2006, 04:06 PM

Your thumbnails look absolutely fine if I view your site. I do not see blurry thumbnails

ESAD · November 30th, 2006, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Your thumbnails look absolutely fine if I view your site. I do not see blurry thumbnails

Neither do I. They look perfect.
Just an FYI. GD1 is the old version and does produce very low quality thumbnails. Never use it unless you have no other choice. GD2 is much better and Image Magic is the best. (so I hear, never tried it. I use GD2 and like it fine)

sinjix · November 30th, 2006, 08:58 PM

can u guys see the slight difference between the thumbnail of gwen stephani in this gallery vs mine? http://danielkobialkamusic.com/forums/gallery/
other than the fact that the thumbnail is smaller?
It is sharper.

Chuck S · November 30th, 2006, 10:49 PM

I dont really see a difference they look identical to me except of course your thumbnail is bigger. If your thumbnails where blurry people would see them blurry but sorry thats not the case here.

Yes imagemagick is the best IMO

sinjix · December 13th, 2006, 06:20 AM

PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE THIS POST.

I have proof of what i was trying to say.
Please look at the difference between the thumbnail on the gallery page and the thumbnail on the forums.

I'm runing a VBulletin forum and Imagemagic seems to be working fine for the forums script because it's just asking me for where "Path to the ImageMagick 6 binaries (convert and identify). Example: Unix: /usr/local/bin/
Windows: C:\imagemagick\", but when it comes to my photopost gallery it does not seem to be working.

The photopost script is asking me for:
"Path for MOGRIFY executable"

Right now what I have in there is "/usr/bin/mogrify"
When i use the rebuild thumbnails command in my admin control panel using that (/usr/bin/mogrify) it at least thinks its rebuilding the thumbnails, but doesnt work because the thumbnails are blurry.
I know this for a fact because the thumbnail on the forums is way sharper than the thumbnail on the gallery page. Imagemagic does not seem to be working, but it doesnt give me any errors.

Notice how the words latin flava are much sharper on the forum page.

forum link
http://www.ny-dev.com/forums/showpos...22&postcount=3

gallery link
http://www.ny-dev.com/forums/gallery...lery.php?cat=3

When I use /usr/bin/ or /usr/bin or /usr/bin/mogrify/ or any other combination, i just get an error message when i click rebuild thumbnails.

THE DIFFERENCE IS VERY NOTICABLE.

Please help me.

Chuck S · December 13th, 2006, 09:04 AM

where is the thumbnail to compare to? Your forum thumbnail looks way blurrier to me than any thumbnail on the gallery

In the links you have posted throughout this thread myself and any other member who has responded in this thread does not see any blurry photos on your gallery so I dont know what to tell you cause clearly Imagemagick is working perfectly. Your thumbnails are flawless. You can control quality of images through the quality setting in upload options. By default it is set to 70%

sinjix · December 13th, 2006, 09:32 AM

i don't know what else to say.
It is obvious that the images posted on the forums are way sharper than the gallery images.

I would love to add a poll to this because I'm sure anyone can see the noticable difference.

Chuck S · December 13th, 2006, 09:43 AM

I had stated you can control quality in the admin panel in Photopost

You can match whatever quality settings you want so if you want 100% quality set it to this

sinjix · December 13th, 2006, 09:50 AM

My settings right now are and always have been at 100%.
I have even tried lowering the percentage little by little to see if for some reason that would match the quality, but it still displays blurry.

Chuck S · December 13th, 2006, 09:52 AM

What version of the software you using? The thumbnails are definately not blurry

http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/index.php

My little hobby site does pictures of coral reef tanks which are pretty vivid and colorful I see no blurry photos

sinjix · December 13th, 2006, 07:42 PM

im not saying there is a problem with photopost. I'm saying there is a problem with my setting somewhere and I am trying to identify it with your help. Are there any further measures we can take in finding out what the problem is?

By "the software" i'm assuming you mean imagemagick.

Quote:

ImageMagick is already installed for PHP on all servers and can be accessed by the path /usr/bin. We are currently running version 6.0.7.

because the versions of photopost and vbulletin are clearly stated in my footer.

hope this helps.

Thank you.

P.S
You are right. The thumbnails on your hobby site are clearly using imagemagick well. The thumbnails on my site a VERY CLEARLY not.

Chuck S · December 13th, 2006, 10:56 PM

The only thing I can say to help is the quality setting I have already noted. If you do not have ssh access to recompile Imagemagick on your server then you might need to use GD2 and see if this helps you