I recently noticed that many of the thumbnails in my gallery look really bad. I downloaded several of the thumbnail images and noticed that they were reduced in size to under 5K. I always upload thumbnails at as close to 15K as I can get and I was wondering if this is a system glitch, new policy or is it something affecting only my images?

Upon further investigation I find that many of my uploaded gallery images have also been degraded with smaller image files even though the image text still shows them as having the original filesize as when they were uploaded. This reduction in jpeg quality is horrendous! What the hell is going on?

You must have some kind of image optimization setting in your browser that got turned on. I just checked several thumbs in your gallery and they are all right at 15k.

Hmmmm, that's curious because it's not affecting all of my thumbnails or images - only some older ones.

I looked at the first two pages of your gallery and saw nothing wrong. Thumbs are 200 x200 (15k) and the full size images are the same size shown by the text.

Ooops - the problem was indeed on my side because I just cleaned up my image cache and everything is just fine now. Sorry I didn't do that first before panicking but thanks for checking this out for me :)

OK ,went to your last page and everything is fine there also.
You may want to empty out your internet cache and temp file and try again. Edited after your last post: Which one am I Abbot or Costello?

Message edited on: 04/03/2005 13:11

Hehehehe - as I just said :) Thanks :)

Why do you want you thumbnails to be as close to 15K as possible? Slow page loading time is not something to reach for. 10k or even 5k is quite good enough guality for a thumbnail. Further, square thumbnails showing only small part of image is not a very good idea. It would be much better to have thumbnails that show the whole imgae as it is. But on the other hand, it would be better not to post any images to Renderosity any more. The new TOS is such an offensive attack against artistic freedom. It would be better if we all move our images to other sites. Since you have nude images, you could move them to Renderotica, for example. I have already deleted all the images from my gallery (after the single fairy image I had was deleted without warning).

10K thumbnails might be acceptable but 200x200 jpg images at 5K look very bad. The textures are choppy and the edges are too ragged.

'It would be much better to have thumbnails that show the whole imgae as it is.'

The trouble with that is that if your thumbnails are 200x200 nobody needs to look any further than the thumbnail itself. A 200x200 jpg is a large enough image for anyone to look at and then just move on.

The new TOS restrictions don't really apply to my images because all of my 'ladies' are all grown up and could never be mistaken for children. The images I post at Renderotica could only be displayed at an adult site because they are more explicit.

I'm sorry your image was deleted without warning. I had ten of my best selling products deleted from my store during the last morality purge so I feel your pain - and more!

The trouble with that is that if your thumbnails are 200x200 nobody needs to look any further than the thumbnail itself. A 200x200 jpg is a large enough image for anyone to look at and then just move on. Ditto. That is why my gallery image thumbnails are a 150*150 piece of the image and not the whole image shrunk.