Image quality in PH articles...

Image quality in PH articles...

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RumbleOfThunder

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3,546 posts

202 months

Tuesday 15th January 2019
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Glasgowrob said:
laugh

It's the same level of delusion tbh.

B'stard Child

28,321 posts

245 months

Tuesday 15th January 2019
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RumbleOfThunder said:
B'stard Child said:
it's a red car - I honestly could not give a st about the resolution of the images on my phone or tablet it's impossible to see the differences unless you zoom in to a point where you are focusing on a small detail.
B'stard Child said:
it's a red car
Maybe that's good enough for you but not me. Phone or tablet? Quality is horrific across ALL platforms, not just mobile. I'm not misrepresenting these imagines, compare them yourself with those from other sites and you can see the problem.
It might not be good enough for you but it's fine for me - this is a discussion based forum that is focused on motoring

You want high res images - try a photography forum biggrin

ukaskew

10,642 posts

220 months

Wednesday 16th January 2019
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B'stard Child said:
You want high res images - try a photography forum biggrin
Or literally any other media outlet that has published these pictures. And that's the point, it's 2019 and one of the largest motoring sites in the UK is still just about hanging in there with a website that could from the late 90s.

The site is fortunate enough to have one of the biggest and most active topic specific userbases in the UK, yet it's being run into the ground. It's not a crime to want the powers that be to do a half decent job on maintaining the site, and it being free should not mean we're happy to settle with a crappy experience. 99% of websites are free yet I can think of few as big or as monetized as PH that are anywhere near as poor or outdated.

Think how a group like Petrolicious is thriving based on high quality content. Why should PH not aspire to be able to do things to a similar level, sending journalists and photographers off to cover interesting topics and publishing new great content? Its frustrating because it feels like that should easily be within reach for a site like PH.


Edited by ukaskew on Wednesday 16th January 02:50

RumbleOfThunder

Original Poster:

3,546 posts

202 months

Wednesday 16th January 2019
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Both above are PH hosted. The vile top one is from this weeks Spotted and the nice one is from the PH classified itself.

Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Wednesday 16th January 2019
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RumbleOfThunder said:
B'stard Child said:
it's a red car - I honestly could not give a st about the resolution of the images on my phone or tablet it's impossible to see the differences unless you zoom in to a point where you are focusing on a small detail.
B'stard Child said:
it's a red car
Maybe that's good enough for you but not me. Phone or tablet? Quality is horrific across ALL platforms, not just mobile. I'm not misrepresenting these imagines, compare them yourself with those from other sites and you can see the problem.
Quite agree with RoT.

Given that PH's entire raison d'être is that it's a motoring forum about cars how they can even begin to allow the tiny ste pictures they do is beyond me. As stated earlier, it's why I don't bother getting my motoring news here, I go elsewhere.

Any 'saving' from using compressed, horrifically-artefact-riddled pictures isn't even worth wasting time on. There is no excuse for the utter crap they deliver.

AW111

9,455 posts

132 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Funk said:
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Any 'saving' from using compressed, horrifically-artefact-riddled pictures isn't even worth wasting time on. There is no excuse for the utter crap they deliver.
They need all the bandwidth for all the crappy virus-infested adverts they're pushing.

shout PH: Drop the advert image resolution to what you use for cars, and see if anyone notices.

B'stard Child

28,321 posts

245 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Funk said:
RumbleOfThunder said:
B'stard Child said:
it's a red car - I honestly could not give a st about the resolution of the images on my phone or tablet it's impossible to see the differences unless you zoom in to a point where you are focusing on a small detail.
B'stard Child said:
it's a red car
Maybe that's good enough for you but not me. Phone or tablet? Quality is horrific across ALL platforms, not just mobile. I'm not misrepresenting these imagines, compare them yourself with those from other sites and you can see the problem.
Quite agree with RoT.

Given that PH's entire raison d'être is that it's a motoring forum about cars how they can even begin to allow the tiny ste pictures they do is beyond me. As stated earlier, it's why I don't bother getting my motoring news here, I go elsewhere.

Any 'saving' from using compressed, horrifically-artefact-riddled pictures isn't even worth wasting time on. There is no excuse for the utter crap they deliver.
I'm just providing a bit of balance

I don't see a million users joining the cry for better image quality - so on that basis most PH'rs don't give a st or don't even recognose that there is a probem with image quality

loudlashadjuster

5,082 posts

183 months

Thursday 30th May 2019
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From Friday's Stradale article. I think there's a Ferrari in there somewhere.



Something in PH's CMS sure doesn't like red for some reason.

RumbleOfThunder

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3,546 posts

202 months

Thursday 30th May 2019
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Well, what say you techies? You were quite responsive at the beginning when you thought it was a browser issue. smile

silentbrown

8,793 posts

115 months

Thursday 30th May 2019
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RumbleOfThunder said:
Well, what say you techies? You were quite responsive at the beginning when you thought it was a browser issue. smile
I'll give them a pass on that particular article, as the original images on the Dick Lovett website are -suprisingly- almost as bad. GIGO....



https://www.dicklovett.co.uk/ferrari/used-cars/200...

Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Thursday 30th May 2019
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I've done some work in Photoshop and I'm sure you'll see the clear improvement over the PH images.



No charge and you're welcome, PH.

Edited by Funk on Tuesday 25th June 15:31

B'stard Child

28,321 posts

245 months

Thursday 30th May 2019
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Funk said:
I've done some work in Photoshop and I'm sure you'll see the clear improvement over the PH images.



No charge and you're welcome, PH.
Can't see any difference - what is with you lot and red cars

loudlashadjuster

5,082 posts

183 months

Friday 31st May 2019
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silentbrown said:
I'll give them a pass on that particular article, as the original images on the Dick Lovett website are -suprisingly- almost as bad. GIGO....



https://www.dicklovett.co.uk/ferrari/used-cars/200...
Fair point, but there is a higher quality version on Dick Lovett's site (click for full version), miles ahead of the SuperFuzz-O-Vision PH version.




Edited by loudlashadjuster on Friday 31st May 08:27

PorkInsider

5,877 posts

140 months

Friday 14th June 2019
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I'm wondering if there's some sort of legal aspect to this?

You know how courtroom artists draw a representation of the scene because photographs aren't allowed?

Maybe there's something like that going on here; PH aren't allowed to use the original image so someone's looking at the photo they were given and then knocking something up that looks vaguely like it using Paint?




eybic

9,212 posts

173 months

Tuesday 25th June 2019
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Surely BMW have a bit more definition in the images? What are PH doing to them?

Dr Interceptor

7,743 posts

195 months

Tuesday 25th June 2019
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eybic

9,212 posts

173 months

Tuesday 25th June 2019
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Dr Interceptor said:
rofl

Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Tuesday 25th June 2019
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eybic said:


Surely BMW have a bit more definition in the images? What are PH doing to them?
Holy fk that's bad.

They just really don't care do they?

eybic

9,212 posts

173 months

Wednesday 26th June 2019
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If I was JZM, I'd be pissed. The article talks about what great lengths they go to to have immaculate cars but the pictures make them look like they've been painted with a sharpie




RumbleOfThunder

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3,546 posts

202 months

Wednesday 26th June 2019
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Literally the main image in the article.



https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-driven/princes...