Image quality

[chrisjl]

In these days of high resolution and high DPI screens, isn't it time PH moved on from using 600px wide images? Also, the visually jarring crudeness of the jagged PH banner striped across the corner of most images is completely solvable.

Compare:


With:

(I don't claim to have done a particularly good job of that, but at least the eye-catching jaggies are banished)

[MattDell]

Do it in Classic ASP and we'll make it happen.

But seriously, at the moment we can't do much about it because the technology used to run the news / forums is so out of date. You'll see on the classifieds we do have a much nicer watermark. The above will be part of ongoing upgrades, but there really isn't anything we can do about it in the immediate future.

-Matt

[miniman]

Go on, it's got to be worth $240

http://www.chestysoft.com/imagefile/watermark.asp

[jimxms]

I don't pretend to know anything about ASP (I'm a PHP guy). But can't you just install Imagemagick on your server, create the PH banner as a nice anti-aliased PNG file and get ImageMagick to overlay the PNG on your resized images as a watermark?

Total cost £0.00

[MattDell]

Oh, so there are options. I retract my 'it can't be done' statement...


I still don't have the PH chequebook, however...

[Papa Hotel]

MattDell said:

Oh, so there are options. I retract my 'it can't be done' statement...


I still don't have the PH chequebook, however...

He said it wouldn't cost anything.

I must commend you though, you spelt cheque correctly.

[PetrolTed]

I think it might be to do with which fonts are available on which web server.

It used to work quite crisply. Check out this from 2005:

http://pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=12...

[jimxms]

PetrolTed said:

I think it might be to do with which fonts are available on which web server.

It used to work quite crisply. Check out this from 2005:

http://pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=12...

That's still pretty jagged imo. Font is a bit better tho

[PetrolTed]

Fair enough. Best solution would be to paste on the watermark - that code actually renders a font at a particular angle.

[Switch]

In short. we can and will. However it's pretty far down the list of current developer priorities as it'd require a not insignificant bit of work to plumb it in (let alone working out what 'it' will be)