Kamchatka Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 (edited) The issue has now been fixed - forum has had jpg compression turned off. While sending larger images over DM last night i spotted the forum was degrading the quality of the images, adding artifact granularity stuff Top is image inserted via a link using "Other Media" button: It is clean, this is identical to how the original image looks on my drive. Downloaded this file is 538kb Bottom is image inserted using 'Drag Files here to Attach' the forums direct image upload function. Downloaded this file is now: 160kb on the second image look closely at the heavy artifacting occuring around the white text on the red background (zoom in image uploaded via a link to show the original issue without adding a second layer of artifacting again) If we dont nip this in the bud quickly we're going to get a situation where images slowly degrade as people upload, download, upload, download to keep sharing stuff. The simple fix is people just need to upload images using a image hosting site using a link that ends with .jpg or .png or whatever. No need for code you just paste the link into the post and itll work automatically add it. Edited August 30, 2022 by Kamchatka 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamchatka Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 Update: This issue seems to only affect JPG files and not PNG files. PNG files remain uploaded in full capacity, while JPG files are reduced in size by x2-x5 and more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamchatka Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 Left image is drag and dropped, right image is linked original image is 31.1kb left image is 6.53kb right image is 31.1kb And ENHANCE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 I knew I wasn't going crazy! Clicking an image in the posts above and then going through the images with the arrows, it's very clear there is a big difference in quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Kamchatka said: The simple fix is people just need to upload images using a image hosting site using a link that ends with .jpg or .png or whatever. No need for code you just paste the link into the post and itll work automatically add it. Would uploading from a reply (not drag & drop but actually hitting "choose files" at the bottom of the post) accomplish the same as uploading to a hosting site? Or is it same quality as drag & drop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamchatka Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Dalton said: Would uploading from a reply (not drag & drop but actually hitting "choose files" at the bottom of the post) accomplish the same as uploading to a hosting site? Or is it same quality as drag & drop? "choose files" does the same thing as drag and drop it seems, just tested. It says the file is 29kb in the attachment window below but then when you save the file the downloaded version is 8kb Edited August 30, 2022 by Kamchatka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlie Rahn Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 I just sent an email to support to see if there is anything we can do to prevent that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamchatka Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 mazing, thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlie Rahn Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 OK, I found an option that was set to 80-90% compression on JPG files. I just upped it to 100% - so see if it now works better 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamchatka Posted August 30, 2022 Author Share Posted August 30, 2022 Amazing yes seems to work perfectly now. You star, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavelleuk Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Good looking out Kam!! On an unrelated note the CVerse 07 intro screen (I'm guessing) looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamchatka Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 18 hours ago, lavelleuk said: Good looking out Kam!! On an unrelated note the CVerse 07 intro screen (I'm guessing) looks great! Thanks! yeah they're in the latest release of TCPs 2007 mod now. Was very happy with how they turned out especially once they were booting up in game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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