Fuzzy images
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Some jpg images (even fairly high-resolution ones) look fuzzy in a post after uploading. But NOT when you click on them – within WordPress – to see them at full size.
Any way to get round this?
Thanks.
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That’s because of the apparently not-so-perfect way the uploader creates the scaled-down version you get in the blog page.* For better results in the page, you should scale down a copy of the image to the maximum width allowed for your theme (395px in your case) in an image editing application, and upload this copy (in full size). But this way you lose clicking to a larger, better quality, image. If both are important to you, you’ll have to upload both versions and make the one link to the other (I don’t think it’s worth the trouble).
*Another member recently noted that colors get paler – see here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pale-pictures?replies=7#post-258262 -
Yup, it’s true that some colours do get paler. And it seems unpredictable which images deteriorate more and which upload better. You say maximum width for my theme is 395 px. I find it’s only 360, and then I start to lose the right edge of the image. Right? It’s a problem with this theme that images have to be severely reduced if they are wide.
Thanks.
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Is there a difference as far as you know between Flash uploading and the regular method?
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To me Flash is “regular”! Anyway, I’ve tried both and I’ve seen absolutely no difference. (Makes sense, because the full-size images are ok – it’s the scaling down that makes them deteriorate.)
I think it’s not a problem, really, as long as one can click (on what in essence is a thumbnail) and enjoy the original in full size and detail. Perhaps you could add a note (in the posts or in the sidebar) pointing this out for visitors who are not aware of it.
As for the width, all fixed-width themes have restrictions; but their main column width varies. If this would be a deciding factor for you, see here:
There’s another possibility, too: to force a real full-size display of a larger-than-allowed image (by changing the numbers in the html post editor after you upload it), say with a note to click for the COMLETE instead of a larger original in this case. But this is dangerous: with some themes (e.g. Chaotic Soul that I’m using) it works ok, while in others it might get mixed-up with the sidebar items or kick your sidebar to the bottom of the page. And in most cases it would be very questionable visually, of course.
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thanks for the helpful conversation… I am having the same problem: crappy image quality on the medium sized images that I use on my blog. It seems to be a new problem; or at least worsened in last couple of weeks. As i look back in the older posts, there is a detectable difference in quality even at my beginning, but not as bad as the recent posts.
Karen
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