Image Quality

The image quality on every posted photo I look at has been downgraded, both when they are full-sized and condensed. There appears to be problems with pixels; images appear overly-blurry.

If they were png images they are now being converted to jpg since serving images has become really expensive especially uncompessed png's. If you can list some specific examples I check look into it more

I just noticed this as well. Images were blurry no matter what the original quality was. It could be intermittent depending on server resources since images uploaded this morning were fine. I'll try again later and see what happens...

I'm not sure, but it seems that if the background is white, the quality degrades. I analyzed all my images uploaded, and it seems to be the case. This might be tied to the duplicate image processing and it detects it as an outlier which would then change the quality? I don't know, just a theory...

Can you post a specific example so I can compare with the old image server?

images uploaded
www.listal.com/viewimage/16020464
www.listal.com/viewimage/16020463
www.listal.com/viewimage/16020462


original quality
www.imagebam.com/image/ae9b53810713333
www.imagebam.com/image/6973ab810713373
www.imagebam.com/image/b56b9b810713413

Did you upload this URL: images2.imagebam.com/0d/4d/26/6973ab810713373.jpg ? or copy image and paste - sometimes I've done that by accident and it posts a smaller, preview pic.

Nevermind - it is definitely compressing the image. And they are both JPG's too.

I've changed it to improve the quality

I tested it by uploading more, images doesn't seem improved, still looks blurry.

There seems to be a correlation with how bright or dark the pics are. These are a few examples of the same type of images:

good quality, pic has darker tones
www.listal.com/viewimage/15981977h

original
www.imagebam.com/image/667f2d811109013



blurry, pic has mostly light tones/white
www.listal.com/viewimage/15982019h

original
www.imagebam.com/image/aaa872811109033


as you can see, the image with darker tones is barely unchanged, white the lighter image is noticeably blurry.

The quality issues should be fixed now

They're certainly better, though the images still aren't 100% fixed.

Still pretty rough.

Please can you post specific examples that look worse than they did before so I can look into it further

Original- 68.media.tumblr.com/5cd6ca1c66dd08bcaaceea495768950f/tumblr_p507ylH29E1s9bseio1_1280.png
Listal- www.listal.com/viewimage/15493600

Original- 68.media.tumblr.com/ddd7697dfbeb5493f885ad161502b301/tumblr_p4f96vJ3OG1s9bseio1_1280.png
Listal- www.listal.com/viewimage/15816942


Original- 68.media.tumblr.com/0e328fcfb5bddf195ac55b11c95926b1/tumblr_p7biprW8Wp1s9bseio1_1280.png
Listal- www.listal.com/viewimage/15631826

Original- 68.media.tumblr.com/46ed565ddac37a1e55ab582b3fe7956b/tumblr_p3ih4e1zkP1s9bseio1_1280.png
Listal- www.listal.com/viewimage/15225436

While the issue has gotten slightly more resolved, there are still some noticeable problems (especially in the last example).

I noticed the following:

The images are displayed in black and white and sometimes green before they are full.

Are they progressive JPEGs?

Still pretty rough.