Blurry Pics In WordPress ONLY

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  adinalp1 · Member · May 9, 2012 at 11:19 am

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  If I upload to WordPress a picture that’s edited in IPiccy, Pic Monkey or Picnik (before it died) it shows very blurry on my blog. The same pinned picture is nice and crisp in Pinterest.

  If I edit in GIMP and upload to my blog it’s also a great image. What’s the deal? I’d like to use mainstream editing and get good crisp, photos on the blog. Can you help?

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  dlager · Member · May 9, 2012 at 1:16 pm

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  can you please give a link to your blog?…preferably to any pages with the said image blurriness?

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  adinalp1 · Member · May 9, 2012 at 1:55 pm

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  Here’s a link to an example of a crisp picture I edited in GIMP
  http://adinagreenwood.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/my-kids-valentines/

  Here is a post with pics edited in ipiccy which look like they are out of focus and somewhat fuzzy.
  http://adinagreenwood.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/in-plain-sight/

  The same pics (bookshelves) are crisp on Pinterest.

  Here’s the Pinterest link to that image
  http://pinterest.com/pin/89931323779390589/

  Thanks.

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  feartheseeds · Member · May 9, 2012 at 2:18 pm

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  http://adinagreenwood.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/love2.jpg?w=494&h=243

  You have the dimensions of the image set wrong. They should be 494px × 247px. Reset the dimensions, then update the post. It should clear up right away.

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  feartheseeds · Member · May 9, 2012 at 2:27 pm

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  Sorry, forget what I just wrote… the images on your blog have been scaled down quite a bit. This one, http://pinterest.com/pin/89931323779390589/ for example, is naturally 553px × 826px but you’ve posted it as 398px × 594px. Sometimes you can get away with resizing photos like that, but once you add material to the image — like text — the resized image will get blurry.

  It’s better to add the text after you’ve resized the image.

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  dlager · Member · May 10, 2012 at 4:36 pm

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  I would a agree with feartheseeds.

  Also it is likely GIMP does a better job at creating the initial file of your image, so when they are interepreted by other programs, they may look better when resized or re-edited.

  When you can: try to resize your pictures before uploading to your blog. GIMP is a well known, trusted-for-quality, desktop app for that.