Gravatar image quality
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I created a Gravatar. When I look at the image that I uploaded in the preview – in the interface screen where you crop it, it looks great. When I accept it, and it shows it as one of my uploaded images to be used, it looks like it has been compressed poorly. Is there anyway around this. How do other people’s Gravatar images not look this bad? If I compress it on my own, will it not comrpress with the Gravatar service? If so, is there some maximum file size? IS there anything else that I should know about this?
Thanks
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The FAQ doesn’t say what size is best but I do recommend uploading your image over at http://gravatar.com and see if your image turns out better.
Also here is the FAQ for Gravatar’s http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/
If your using IE and uploading a PNG file I recommend reading this FAQ http://en.gravatar.com/site/faq/ The FAQ about IE is at the bottom of the page.
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Thanks for the response t3ck.
I did upload my image at gravatar.com. I checked out their help. I uploaded a jpg from my mac.
Does anyone else have this problem? Any help?
thanks
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I tried another image. Same result. My images are 72 dpi, jpg. I have tried uploading a larger image, an image at 80px x 80px. Same result. Images look good when uploaded, I use the Gravatar crop tool. the preview images on the right look great. I click to continue and the resulting image looks like it was compressed or something. Not grainy, but sections look like they had water smudged on them.
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I have the same problem, designsbytierney. I can upload a nice crisp 150×150 image, and by the time it gets blown up in the Gravatar editor, and then cropped back down, the compression or whatever is going on makes the image blurry if you try to use anything but the smallest Gravatar setting (looks to be about 100×100 on my blog). I’ve just settled on the small image rather than a medium blurry one.
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I tried 148 x 148 and it makes no difference. I also tried 80 x 80 and that makes no difference either.
Is there no place to get support with this?
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@designsbytierney My Gravatar is 200×200 and PNG format but if the image starts out small and if you make it a bigger size the image will become blurry.
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I got it working. PNG seems to make the difference. Can’t say I have any idea why, but when I load a png, the file ends up looking good after it is cropped in the Gravatar load image screen. When I did it with a jpg, it looked bad, no matter what size I used. Go figure. thanks for sharing your thoughts, feedback and comments.
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For the best image quality in your gravatar you must optimize and resize it to exactly 128 pixels by 128 pixels, prior to uploading it at gravatar.com
Types of Images
* JPG works best for images with gradients such as photographs.
* GIF are best for blocks of repetitive color including logos, line art, and illustrations with type.
* PNG should be used to preserve partial transparency and a large amount of colors. PNG images often take up more space, so try the GIF format first to see if it works well for your image.
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