Photos rendering in low resolution

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  mzawel · Member · Aug 22, 2009 at 3:34 am

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  Any other WP users seeing photos unnecessarily rendering in low resolution?

  For example, see the first picture in this old post:
  http://marczawel.com/2009/05/04/arrival-in-the-mother-city/

  Yeah,it looks terrible.

  But the photo itself is fine:
  http://marczawel.com/2009/05/04/arrival-in-the-mother-city/dsc_0171a/

  Really weird. If anyone might be able to make sense of this, I’d appreciate it.

  Regards,
  Marc

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 22, 2009 at 3:48 am

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  When you upload a large image and then insert it into a post, if you insert it as a thumbnail or a medium, wordpress resizes and resamples the image. If you insert it as “full-sized” wordpress inserts it into the image and simply passes the size to be displayed on to the browser and the browser then renders it at the size needed.

  To get high quality images in the post, resize and resample the images to the exact width needed by your particular theme in your image editing program and then upload that image. That way you aren’t relying on wordpress or the browser to size the image. In the case of the theme you are using that is 509px in width.

  For a little more information on this subject, see this post: http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/how-good-is-wordpress-at-resizing-and-resampling-your-images/ .