Photos with lots of dark areas look blocky in smugmug gallery
Molotov Everything
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Here's the issue: photos with a lot of shadows or black areas in them don't look right in my smugmug galleries.
On my laptop they look fine, but now I'm looking at them on my girlfriend's desktop, and the black areas show up as a mix of black and grey boxes. Like, fairly large boxes. It looks awful.
When looking at the originals they obviously don't look that way, they look fine. Only the resized images in my galleries look this way.
And the other weird thing is they look normal when viewed as part of a slideshow.
Here's an example.
Now if you go to my homepage here http://www.molotoveverything.com and wait for that photo to show up on the slideshow it's an obvious difference. Also, if you notice in the above photo, the skull itself looks fine, very vivid. It's only the dark areas off to the sides that are affected.
Photo was taken with a Nikon d80 in JPEG, went straight from memory card to harddrive to smugmug. Didn't do any processing.
So here's the questions:
1)does anyone else see this problem or could it possibly be this monitor? (it's a fairly new monitor and I don't see this problem with other people's photos so I doubt it)
2)What can cause this? 300dpi resolution should be more than enough right?
3)How do I prevent this?
On my laptop they look fine, but now I'm looking at them on my girlfriend's desktop, and the black areas show up as a mix of black and grey boxes. Like, fairly large boxes. It looks awful.
When looking at the originals they obviously don't look that way, they look fine. Only the resized images in my galleries look this way.
And the other weird thing is they look normal when viewed as part of a slideshow.
Here's an example.
Now if you go to my homepage here http://www.molotoveverything.com and wait for that photo to show up on the slideshow it's an obvious difference. Also, if you notice in the above photo, the skull itself looks fine, very vivid. It's only the dark areas off to the sides that are affected.
Photo was taken with a Nikon d80 in JPEG, went straight from memory card to harddrive to smugmug. Didn't do any processing.
So here's the questions:
1)does anyone else see this problem or could it possibly be this monitor? (it's a fairly new monitor and I don't see this problem with other people's photos so I doubt it)
2)What can cause this? 300dpi resolution should be more than enough right?
3)How do I prevent this?
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Can you see the "boxes" when viewing the galleries from your own computer?
Does your girlfriends computer use an "Internet accelerator"? These increase the speed of downloading webpages by applying additional compression to the images.
Paul
Do you see what I'm talking about in the above photo?
To the best of my knowledge there is no internet accelerator, but that got me thinking a bit. I've been looking at it in firefox the whole time (on both computers) so I just loaded it up in internet explorer on her computer and the IE version looks fine, firefox looks blocky. I looked through all the FF add ons and plugins and didn't see anything to do with accelerating. The only one that seemed fishy is yahoo browser plus. I'm not entirely clear on what that does (enhances my web experience? the hell does that mean?).
So if it's something with firefox, I'm worried that even if I'm able to fix it on her computer there may be tons of FF users who will see my photos the same way and won't go changing settings in order to get it right, they'll just leave my site.
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