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DiddyBopper

Joined: 5/29/2009
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Possible to fix the bad quality of upload photos? Posted: 7/2/2009 7:29:45 AM
Stupid photo uploader messes up the quality of my pics and its annoying lol. Anyway to fix this? I tried different formats but that didnt seem to help too much. I thought maybe it was my pic because its from a cellphone and perhaps it was too small so that when it got uploaded it got blown up. So I doubled the size of the pic just by putting a thick border around it, but that didnt seem to work either.. lol Any ideas? Or is it forever going to suck?

subtlecaffeine

Joined: 5/23/2007
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Possible to fix the bad quality of upload photos? Posted: 7/2/2009 7:45:04 AM
POF tends to resize and recompress the images, probably to save them bandwidth. As a result, the recompressed images look bad. There's not much you can do to fix it. You can try maybe resizing them to something smaller yourself, but i'm not 100% on what exact sizes they store thier photos in internally. Camera phone pictures don't handle being recompressed too well. There's generally a lot of noise in the photo due to the cheap optics and cheap sensors used...this noise reaks havoc with JPEG compression. Don't add a border to your image, it won't help. Doubling generally isn't the way to go. Unless your camera phone photos are smaller than 640x480, you shouldn't have a problem. You might try reducing them in size to 320x240 using an image program that'll do it right, see if that helps you any. My camera-phone pictures are insanely huge and they don't look too bad. -Jay

sandgroper999

Joined: 5/22/2009
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Possible to fix the bad quality of upload photos? Posted: 7/2/2009 8:06:07 AM
Resize the photos in a photo editor like IrfanView to no more than 400 x 300 , save them as a *.jpg file and you shouldn't have any problems. ( Resize the photos by preserving the original aspect ratio to prevent any distortion ) IrfanView http://www.irfanview.net/ .