[Solved]: Can't decide if I'm losing quality...

[aldog]

I uploaded some pictures from a friends lacrosse game and sent the link to him, he uploaded some of them to his myspace so I went and looked which one's, I noticed immediately that the quality is lower...now I know myspace could be reducing quality, so I didn't base this post on that...
I took a screen shot to show what I'm talking about
[Edit GauGau] Replaced hotlinked image with attachment [/Edit]
Left to Right
Gallery view (on firefox) ... iPhoto ... Preview (mac's picture viewer)

I just don't know if it's a browser thing or not, because after that I uploaded the same picture as him to my myspace, but using the original file, and they looked the same. I kind of think the 2 on the right look like they were taken with a mid to high end camera, and the left one looks like it was taken with a point and shoot.
Is this a browser problem, or a problem with my gallery that can be fixed.

[aldog]

so am I crazy?

[Hein Traag]

And not patient either.. this is not a hotline support forum, nobody gets paid to lend a hand. Take more then 1 day before bumping your thread.

[aldog]

sorry sir, it's been a while since I've been on here and last time I read it was customary to wait 24 hours.

[Joachim Müller]

last time I read it was customary to wait 24 hours.

That's not the case and never has been. You must have read that somewhere else; not here.

[aldog]

well I didn't mean to sound impatient, I just figured noone was responding because my question had no basis. didn't mean to offend anyone.

[Joachim Müller]

Resize the pics on your client before uploading them if the quality of your image library's output doesn't satisfy you.

[aldog]

ok thank you, I will do that to the next batch and see how they turn out.

[aldog]

If I resize the pictures on my computer with the prefix normal_ and then upload both the original and the resized to my albums folder, and then do a batch add, will coppermine overwrite these pictures during the batch add?

[Joachim Müller]

No, it will use the intermediates you created.

[aldog]

perfect, thank you very much

[aldog]

After creating my own normal_ files and uploading I was still noticing a problem. I went to a mac forum and asked the question in a less coppermine oriented way and found out that it's the way that firefox on the mac handles pictures. The image quality that coppermine+imagemagick outputs is equal to what photoshop was giving me, at least at 640x480 (quality = 9 in photoshop and 85 in coppermine).

It is a browser related issue.
On camino, opera, and firefox 2.0 for mac, the quality was lower, as shown in my attachment.
On safari, and firefox 2.0 on windows, the quality was equal to that of the photoshop resized images.

I asked the question on macrumors and got this answer (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=476046)
"Are you using Firefox 3? If so, type about:config in the address bar, and switch 'gfx.color_management.enabled' to true."
after doing that the pictures looked better. so the problem was specific to mac and the browsers mentioned.


I know this is unrelated to coppermine, but I thought I'd post what inevitably happened so future users can know (if they happen to have the same setup I do)

[Joachim Müller]

Thanks for posting your resolution.