gallery 2 vs flickr imrpoving quality of pics
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oleksabublik
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Posted: Wed, 2008-12-31 10:02
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I've been using gallery 2 and flickr for quite some time now. My major observation is that same photos look much better on flickr than on G2. I've tried many things including increasing jpeg quality to 100% in G2, sharpening tools, etc - but no avail. Photographs in G2 look blurry and smudged as compared to flickr. Does anyone know what's the catch? Is this about the way flickr and gallery 2 process files? Is there anything I can do to improve quality of my G2 photographs to make it more like flickr's? Thanks |
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What image toolkit are you using?
Can you show an example?
Dave
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I think I am using Gd. Here's my photogallery. http://24photo.kiev.ua/
Forgot to mention that I'm using windows XP web publishing feature for most of my photo uploads. May be this is the issue?
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See if changing to IM or netPBM helps. Set the quality to 95 but not 100 as I think there is a issue with setting it to 100 but not sure.
Try a different upload method like the form.
Dave
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somewhere in this forum is a hack for the imagemagick module that does some sharpening whenever an image is resized. See if lanczos (?) turns up any matches - it's the filter type, I think.
The hack is a bit awkward but makes a vast different in perceived quality if you use it.
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http://gallery.menalto.com/node/66292
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That's the one!
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guys, thank you for the input. I installed NetPBM - and that seem to have done the trick. Will try the sharpening technique as well.
Happy new Year!
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the hack only works with imagemagick - but do try it. Happy new year to you too!