What's wrong with these photos?

M

Mary Sauer

Looks like they tried to enlarge tiny pictures and they all pixilated. They
certainly aren't easy on the eyes.
 
J

JoeSpareBedroom

You're too polite, Mary. They suck.

I've manipulated my own digital photos in all sorts of ways, but I've never
ended up with anything that hideous. I was wondering if anything could
happen "post me" that would cause that problem.
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

You have the originals saved right? Just redo them.



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression





| You're too polite, Mary. They suck.
|
| I've manipulated my own digital photos in all sorts of ways, but I've
never
| ended up with anything that hideous. I was wondering if anything could
| happen "post me" that would cause that problem.
|
| | > Looks like they tried to enlarge tiny pictures and they all pixilated.
| > They certainly aren't easy on the eyes.
| >
| > --
| > Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
| > http://office.microsoft.com/
| > http://msauer.mvps.org/
| > news://msnews.microsoft.com
| >
message
| > | >> Kinda looks like they were dimensionally resized without keeping the
| >> aspect
| >> ratio locked.
| >>
| >> --
| >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| >> Rob Giordano
| >> Microsoft MVP Expression
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >> | >> | http://www.woodcraft.com/stores/store.aspx?id=531&nav=photos
| >> |
| >> | What went wrong with the photos on that page? I'll be designing my
| >> first
| >> web
| >> | page soon, and want to avoid the same mistakes.
| >> |
| >> |
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
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R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

Oh, so you want to avoid making those mistakes then?

Resize and optimize your images outside of FP with an image editor, make
sure to keep the aspect ratio the same as the original.

Don't try to make small images bigger.

Work with high res, good quality original images (always save an untouched
original) and only save as an optimized .gif or .jpg as the last thing
before using it in your final web layout.


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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression





|I didn't take the pictures at that web site, Rob.
|
|
| | > You have the originals saved right? Just redo them.
| >
| >
| >
| > --
| > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| > Rob Giordano
| > Microsoft MVP Expression
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > | > | You're too polite, Mary. They suck.
| > |
| > | I've manipulated my own digital photos in all sorts of ways, but I've
| > never
| > | ended up with anything that hideous. I was wondering if anything could
| > | happen "post me" that would cause that problem.
| > |
| > | | > | > Looks like they tried to enlarge tiny pictures and they all
pixilated.
| > | > They certainly aren't easy on the eyes.
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | > Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
| > | > http://office.microsoft.com/
| > | > http://msauer.mvps.org/
| > | > news://msnews.microsoft.com
| > | >
| > message
| > | > | > | >> Kinda looks like they were dimensionally resized without keeping
the
| > | >> aspect
| > | >> ratio locked.
| > | >>
| > | >> --
| > | >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| > | >> Rob Giordano
| > | >> Microsoft MVP Expression
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >> | > | >> | http://www.woodcraft.com/stores/store.aspx?id=531&nav=photos
| > | >> |
| > | >> | What went wrong with the photos on that page? I'll be designing
my
| > | >> first
| > | >> web
| > | >> | page soon, and want to avoid the same mistakes.
| > | >> |
| > | >> |
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
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D

DavidF

The website you link is created with Microsoft Visual Studio. If you are
using Publisher to build the website, which is the subject of this
newsgroup, then there are some steps to take to maximize the quality of
images, but that is dependent upon the version of Publisher used. And if you
aren't using Publisher, you might move your question to a more appropriate
group, for a better answer.

DavidF
 
E

eezzell

Perhaps the photos were compressed too much. But since they are about the
right size (36kb for storelib1.jpg), what I suspect is that they used the
getthumbnailimage function in .Net. The function can be used to make a
thumbnail from a digital image that is too big for displaying on your webpage
and it works fine if the image doesn't have an embedded thumbnail; but if the
image has an embedded thumbnail it extracts that and resizes it, usually
making it bigger.
 

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