Image quality in PH articles...
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Sorry to keep harping on, but if we're going to be obtuse...
PH
Auto Express
The Times
Evo
PH like a lot of other outlets used Alpine's own launch photos, except theirs have been shrunk and even then, horrifically compressed. https://www.parkers.co.uk/alpine/a110/ has 56 pictures on offer and they all wipe the floor with what we have here!
PH
Auto Express
The Times
Evo
PH like a lot of other outlets used Alpine's own launch photos, except theirs have been shrunk and even then, horrifically compressed. https://www.parkers.co.uk/alpine/a110/ has 56 pictures on offer and they all wipe the floor with what we have here!
Another day, another tremendous PH image, this time from the 911 Carrera T article.
Seriously, chaps, this is your shop window!
Seriously, chaps, this is your shop window!
RumbleOfThunder said:
Here's how to do it.
The Autocar image has what I'd consider 'typical' JPG artefacts. But the PH one - god knows what's been done to it! The artefacts are terrible, particularly in the paintwork down the door gap. My best guess is that it's been repeatedly resized, recompressed. The autocar image file is about 30% larger, but that's largely explained by it having rather more pixels.
silentbrown said:
The Autocar image has what I'd consider 'typical' JPG artefacts.
But the PH one - god knows what's been done to it! The artefacts are terrible, particularly in the paintwork down the door gap. My best guess is that it's been repeatedly resized, recompressed. The autocar image file is about 30% larger, but that's largely explained by it having rather more pixels.
I don’t pretend to know the intricacies of images but I know when the colour of the fBut the PH one - god knows what's been done to it! The artefacts are terrible, particularly in the paintwork down the door gap. My best guess is that it's been repeatedly resized, recompressed. The autocar image file is about 30% larger, but that's largely explained by it having rather more pixels.
king thing actually changes, something isn’t right! RumbleOfThunder said:
I don’t pretend to know the intricacies of images but I know when the colour of the fking thing actually changes, something isn’t right!
That may be 'by design' to give the image a bit more 'pop'. But one of the Mclaren interior images was totaly scr*wed - the orangey-brown seats had turned bright red!king thing actually changes, something isn’t right! This is exactly the kind of crap I'm taking about: https://www.pistonheads.com/features/ph-features/p...
Why even bother, PH? It's actually offensive to the eyes.
Why even bother, PH? It's actually offensive to the eyes.
Edited by Funk on Monday 1st January 13:37
Funk said:
Why even bother, PH? It's actually offensive to the eyes.
Those are so st that If I was Dafydd Wood I'd insist they removed my name. The underlying photos are fine, just royally screwed for the website. Honestly, why bother even paying for photographs if this is how you're going to present them?
it's frequently displaying lo-res thumbnails when it should be using the higher res images.
silentbrown said:
Funk said:
Why even bother, PH? It's actually offensive to the eyes.
Those are so st that If I was Dafydd Wood I'd insist they removed my name. The underlying photos are fine, just royally screwed for the website. Honestly, why bother even paying for photographs if this is how you're going to present them?
it's frequently displaying lo-res thumbnails when it should be using the higher res images.
te.Also if I'm being really critical, none of the photos look like anything better than Joe Public could turn in with a mid-range smartphone.
Edited by Funk on Monday 1st January 13:38
AndrewEH1 said:
Above a certain amount, yes.
Do Haymarket care enough about PH to pay for it though. No.
S3 has a free tier with 5GB of storage, but you can only use that for 12 months. Do Haymarket care enough about PH to pay for it though. No.
AWS S3 is great, but I suspect the problem is not hosting cost or storage space, but the change in image workflow and web design to make the site work with decent images.
Why is PH applying watermarks to pictures they didn't take?
Are PH trying to pass them off as their own?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
From the article.
From the web.
http://bit.ly/2rmpSgt
Are PH trying to pass them off as their own?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
From the article.
From the web.
http://bit.ly/2rmpSgt
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