Poor Image Quality - Thumbs and full size

[DJReda]

Hi guys,

I'm in need of some help but first I want to say thanks for all the time and effort put into this GREAT product!  

I just set up your gallery on my site http://2square.com/gallery and everything works great except for image uploads. I'm uploading high res pics and getting poor quality thumbs and full size pics. If you right click and save the pic is perfect quality. PLEASE HELP!

My info:

-Running on Yahoo  :oops:  (I know - I AM ashamed!)
-GD1 supported by Yahoo and enabled in config
-Recent SQL version (Don't remember exact but I know it's a recent one!)

Please let me know what you think


Dominick...

[hyperion]

Your thumbs and normals are poor quality, but your full-size originals are fine.  This is mostly the result of using the GD1 image library (they didn't make GD2 without reason), but it could also be contributed to by excessively high compression.  Make sure your JPEG ratio in the Config is greater than 70.

[Joachim Müller]

GD1 really sucks on thumbnail quality (because it doesn't support true color), that's why thumbs generated with GD1 don't look that nice (take a look at our demo; our webhost sf.net is running GD1 as well, so the thumbs don't look that nice). Take a look at  FAQ: GD1 vs. GD2 to see the difference.

GauGau

[Casper]

If you have set your thumbnail compression too low,as mentioned by Hyperion, setting it to a higher number will not change the existing thumbs/ intermediate pics.  You will have to use the resize utility to re-make the existing ones to the better quality.

[DJReda]

Thanks guys...one more thing - Since I don't have GD2 or MagikStick available on Yahoo (Unless someone knows otherwise) is there a way to remotely use someone else's MS or GD2 or is it time for a new host? If it's a new host...any recommendations?

Thanks again!

Dominick

[Casper]

see this thread, http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=2208.