Image quality in PH articles...

Image quality in PH articles...

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loudlashadjuster

5,121 posts

184 months

Thursday 23rd November 2017
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silentbrown said:
Didn't you mean...
hehe nearly

"Computer, apply Pistonheads transmogrify"

Krikkit

26,527 posts

181 months

Thursday 23rd November 2017
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Just look at this...


...And tell me that isn't dreadful.

RumbleOfThunder

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3,554 posts

203 months

Wednesday 29th November 2017
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Today's Spotted.



Red really seems to accentuate the vileness.

RumbleOfThunder

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203 months

Wednesday 29th November 2017
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Compared to the classified image from........PH!!!


14

2,105 posts

161 months

Wednesday 29th November 2017
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I can't see anything wrong the pics being posted on this thread. The only picture that is terrible is the one which Jack posted.

loudlashadjuster

5,121 posts

184 months

Wednesday 29th November 2017
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14 said:
I can't see anything wrong the pics being posted on this thread. The only picture that is terrible is the one which Jack posted.
May I suggest https://www.amazon.co.uk/Walking-Stick-Visually-Im... ?

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area

7,028 posts

189 months

Wednesday 29th November 2017
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How about this one!



It will never get fixed


Funk

26,274 posts

209 months

Wednesday 29th November 2017
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The picture resolutions and quality are terrible - especially on mobile where they're often just pixelated crap... It's one of the reasons I rarely bother with any 'editorial' and my bookmark goes straight to the forum - I get editorial content from other sites where the layout and picture quality is miles better. PH has always been poor at this.

RumbleOfThunder

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3,554 posts

203 months

Thursday 30th November 2017
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Poor Dafydd Wood must be gutted. eek

loudlashadjuster

5,121 posts

184 months

Friday 1st December 2017
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Good news, everyone! Deep learning boffins can fix these crappy images...automatically!

https://dmitryulyanov.github.io/deep_image_prior

Divert some funds from the hob nob budget at PH Towers and let's get this sorted.

B'stard Child

28,395 posts

246 months

Tuesday 5th December 2017
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I can't see anything wrong the pics being posted on this thread. The only picture that is terrible is the one which Jack posted.
^ WHS (Firefox on IOS Mobile, Firefox on Windows 7 Laptop and Firefox on Windows 8.1 desktop

I really can't see anything wrong with them.

loudlashadjuster

5,121 posts

184 months

Tuesday 5th December 2017
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B'stard Child said:
^ WHS (Firefox on IOS Mobile, Firefox on Windows 7 Laptop and Firefox on Windows 8.1 desktop

I really can't see anything wrong with them.
I just installed Firefox (W10) to check and the image resources are the same and look just as bad.

I've blown the BT46B photo up by 300% so it's maybe clearer, are you seriously telling me you can't see the horrendous compression artifacts around the lettering?!


14

2,105 posts

161 months

Tuesday 5th December 2017
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loudlashadjuster said:
B'stard Child said:
^ WHS (Firefox on IOS Mobile, Firefox on Windows 7 Laptop and Firefox on Windows 8.1 desktop

I really can't see anything wrong with them.
I just installed Firefox (W10) to check and the image resources are the same and look just as bad.

I've blown the BT46B photo up by 300% so it's maybe clearer, are you seriously telling me you can't see the horrendous compression artifacts around the lettering?!

So you've zoomed in to a photo to 300% just to show the problem? I think that just says that there isn't a problem at the normal size.

RumbleOfThunder

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Tuesday 5th December 2017
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loudlashadjuster said:
B'stard Child said:
^ WHS (Firefox on IOS Mobile, Firefox on Windows 7 Laptop and Firefox on Windows 8.1 desktop

I really can't see anything wrong with them.
I just installed Firefox (W10) to check and the image resources are the same and look just as bad.

I've blown the BT46B photo up by 300% so it's maybe clearer, are you seriously telling me you can't see the horrendous compression artifacts around the lettering?!

So you've zoomed in to a photo to 300% just to show the problem? I think that just says that there isn't a problem at the normal size.
Sorry but the problem is plain to see, zoomed or not. Put your readers on! nerd

loudlashadjuster

5,121 posts

184 months

Tuesday 5th December 2017
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So you've zoomed in to a photo to 300% just to show the problem? I think that just says that there isn't a problem at the normal size.
No, I can plainly see it at normal resolution. I was zooming in to (hopefully) allow you to see it on whatever monitor you have.

The zoomed image is a PNG so is lossless, meaning the zoom and crop wouldn't have introduced any further image degradation. If you can see it in the zoomed one then it's there in the original and it is, to anyone involved with digital imaging, shockingly bad.

silentbrown

8,827 posts

116 months

Tuesday 5th December 2017
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loudlashadjuster said:
No, I can plainly see it at normal resolution. I was zooming in to (hopefully) allow you to see it on whatever monitor you have.
Yes. Worth mentioning that a lot depends on the screen resolution and the zoom ratio you have set. Here's 1:1 screenshot of a portion of the Mclaren article with thumbnail pic showing how poor the image is compared to browser-rendered text.

This was with Chrome on a high-DPI Windows laptop... Modern web design techniques allow you to load different quality images depending on screen resolution, etc, but the real problem is that the heavy JPEG compression used is killing the quality. Maybe Haymarket can't afford the outgoing bandwidth or aren't using a CDN like Cloudflare to cache these. It's bizarre.


RumbleOfThunder

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Friday 8th December 2017
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New Alpine is a looker, kind of.



Compared to elsewhere on the interwebs.


14

2,105 posts

161 months

Friday 8th December 2017
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RumbleOfThunder said:
New Alpine is a looker, kind of.



Compared to elsewhere on the interwebs.

I can't see the difference between those 2 pics.

B'stard Child

28,395 posts

246 months

Friday 8th December 2017
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14 said:
RumbleOfThunder said:
New Alpine is a looker, kind of.



Compared to elsewhere on the interwebs.

I can't see the difference between those 2 pics.
One is slightly bigger.......

14

2,105 posts

161 months

Friday 8th December 2017
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B'stard Child said:
One is slightly bigger.......
Well yes I can see that. All that means is someone chose a smaller photo when writing the article.