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Post by Batchads » Sat Apr 23, 2016 1:16 pm

why do I lose the quality of pic when I up load to the forum?
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Post by Skinhead201 » Sat Apr 23, 2016 10:03 pm

Probably due to digital compression. It's less obvious if you use a high res image and don't try to upload it at a higher resolution to the forum.

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Post by Flyingfifer » Mon Apr 25, 2016 9:50 pm

Skinhead201 wrote:Probably due to digital compression. It's less obvious if you use a high res image and don't try to upload it at a higher resolution to the forum.
+1

usually an uploaded file is compressed to be stored, it also depends on the file type, .jpeg for example is quite a lossy file type (it looses quality through compression) whereas .png is a bit better.

Personally I use the ol photobucket as the host and just link the image to the boards :thumbsup:
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Post by sp3ctre » Thu May 05, 2016 11:18 am

Skinhead201 wrote:Probably due to digital compression. It's less obvious if you use a high res image and don't try to upload it at a higher resolution to the forum.
Correct, if you want full quality use photobucket / Flickr (or whatever you like)... it's cost far too much to store all your images at top quality, hi-resolution (it costs enough as it is!)
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