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Off-topic TalkWhere overpaid, underworked S2000 owners waste the worst part of their days before the drive home. This forum is for general chit chat and discussions not covered by the other off-topic forums.
Lets say I take an image that's 1600X1600, and I shrink it to 200X200, it still looks fine, but when I go to load it to this site (like my sig pic on another site pictured below) it gets all blotchy. It's like the color runs together or something, and no matter what I do I can't get it to come out clear, I've tried it with a huge file, or a small one, still the same outcome. What am I doing wrong?
See how blotchy it is? There's gotta' be a way to make it clear even tho' it's small, any ideas?
From what I can tell there are a couple things going on with that picture. First, the JPEG compression algorithm is what's making the solid colors get blotchy like that. I see the same issue when I take pictures of my red car. The more that the JPEG algorithm does with the reds, the worse it will get. Try saving the file with the least amount of JPEG compression. Secondly, and this is related to the first point, if you don't save the file in the exact display resolution of the web page, the image will compress and the JPEG algorithm will try to compensate, making the blotchy-ness. Sometimes web sites will squish your images down. It looks like the page here is trying to display the image at 332 x 150pixels so you need to make sure that's what you saved this image at. Really, you should be able to save the image at any resolution and have it work, so you may just want to test it.
(this one was less enhanced as far as color goes, but you can still see the blotchyness in the front fender really bad, it'd only be worse with color enhancement).
Photoshop Guru's, help me out...
