Image Quality

[barkingmoonbat]

I am formating pictures for the catalog. The pictures are comming out fuzzy. I am using jpeg images and prefomated to the size I set in the admin section.

 

Any ideas on how to clear up the images?

 

Thanks,

John

[mraccine]

I am formating pictures for the catalog. The pictures are comming out fuzzy. I am using jpeg images and prefomated to the size I set in the admin section.

 

Any ideas on how to clear up the images?

 

Thanks,

John

 

Use a contribution like "OTF Auto Thumbnailer". You can upload a JPG the size of 300 x 400 for better customer viewing. The thumbnailer will reduce the size for the catalog pages using PHP's GD Library, and the pic's will look great.

[WoodsWalker]

Hi MoonBat,

 

If your images are pre-formated to the size you want, then you can remove your settings from the admin section (simply leave them blank if desired). Then osC cannot interefere with the image quality.

 

I find that loading a rather large image and then using the admin settings to reduce it where required works for me, as long as I set only the width or the height - not both!

 

Hope this helps,

~Wendy

[jhande]

Hey John,

 

If you are referring to your images coming out fuzzy within your graphics program, there's a few things you can try.

 

First, JPEG format is a lossy image format. Meaning the more you edit and/or save the image, pixels get discarded.

So try resizing either in one step or a few to see which produces the better results. Once you have your image the correct size, check your programs filter options. I have better luck using "unsharp mask" apposed to "sharpen".

 

I am not sure which graphics program you are using, but I started out with JASC Paint Shop Pro. My images came out ok, but not overly great. I have tried a few other programs over the years which I was very dissatisfied with and finally coughed up the money for Photoshop. You just can't beat Photoshop as far as ease and quality results.

 

I created 120 x 86 thumbnail images from originals as big as 500 x 400. Also my larger images were all reproduced to 350 x 200 from images anywhere from 150 x 90 to 500 x 400. You can see them here - Hande's Hobbies. I have the image sizes set accordingly in my admin panel.

 

Hope that might help some. ;)

 

P.S. Don't forget... also try playing with brightness and contrast!