Bad photo quality after upload?

Hi there, in the photo module, After I upload a photo the images (jpg images) come out very compressed (allot of JPG artifacting)

How can I turn down the compression so that the photo quality is better after upload?

Kindest regards

J

Anyone know how to fix the photo quality?

Thanks

J

Do all your pictures do this or just a select few?

Yeah its all of them,

It looks like the JPG's are really compressed.

You can reset the compression level in admin/modules/flash/photos. I set mine to 95 and it seemed to help tremendously.

Sorry I tryed that but it didn't help I dont think thats the right setting, because that seems to be a flash photo shooter. your right houstonlively I would have put it in admin>photos>settings.

but its not there.

Hmm it must be in the code somwhere. Anyone know?

 Um yeah, what he said    ^

Oh man you rock!!

Tanks very much :)

Yes your a rockstar! I have been trying to figure that one out!!

I have made these changes and still notice some image quality issues...As an example i have uploaded images that very in size from 3mb to 300kb and when there uploaded and viewed under image properties the image sizes have been greatly reduced from original (vary from about 30kb prior to changing value from 75 to 95 to about 70kb-90kb after value was changed to 95 regardless of original resolution....Any other suggestions?

What setting did you use for var $_iJpegQuality = 75; // jpeg quality

I bumped it up to 95...on a side note i sent ya a detailed email about my issue..

Yes, I got your email. I don;t think I can help you with this problem past what you can find here. If you set it at 95, it should work well. The only reason it wouldn't is if the image itself wasn't the greatest quality to start with. I looked at the link you gave me and they actually looked ok to me.....

We usually change the script on larger / professional sites we work on to save the original file uploaded... this way, if we need to resize photos later, or change the quality settings, we have the original photo the user uploaded to work with.  While it adds some to the storage requirements - it is a nice thing to have.  Also, it makes it nice, that if you want to show the original photo as a larger view (maybe 3500x3500 or whatever they uploaded) - this is possible.

-Smoge

it worked for me... is there anything for embeded/uploaded videos too???

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