Image Compression

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  headphonecommute · Member · Dec 19, 2015 at 1:28 pm

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  You guys must have upgraded something on your side to increase the compression ratio for the uploaded images, because they look absolutely horrible now! The JPG encoding is blocky and discolored. The whole site has become awful now, like we’re back in 1992 on 2400 baud modem!

  Examples are clearly visible on this page, where the original images are crisp and clear:

  http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2015/12/17/dragons-eye-recordings-darren-mcclure-miguel-isaza-yann-novak-and-tobias-hellkvist/

  (I believe this is only for newly uploaded images)

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  headphonecommute · Member · Dec 19, 2015 at 1:32 pm

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  Additional example clearly demonstrating the new compression (referencing the above link).

  Actual image:
  https://headphonecommute.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/tobias-hellkvist-pause.jpg

  Same image at the same resolution going through the resizing engine. Since the resolution is identical, the newly compressed JPG artifacts are clearly visible:
  

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  headphonecommute · Member · Dec 26, 2015 at 1:31 pm

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  *bump*

  This is still a big problem for me, especially because of displaying images, which are a very important aspect of my site.

  Another example. Original image:
  https://headphonecommute.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/abul-mogard-e28093-circular-forms.jpg

  Same image at the same resolution through the new WP compression engine which I am unable to turn off:
  https://headphonecommute.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/abul-mogard-e28093-circular-forms.jpg?w=1000

  Look at the disgusting purple border and the unnecessary “reduction” of noise, which becomes even more obvious for smaller sized images.