Images are slightly blurred...

Monday 21 April 2008 10:19:44 am

Hi

Has anyone else had the problem that when you embed an image in a page it looks slightly blurred when you choose one of the sizes like "medium" to display it (ie not "original" size)? Is this a problem with PHP - I am using the GD2 library - or is it a problem with eZ's settings? Would installing imageMagick help?

If anyone has got any example sites where you have used the in-built resizing and your images are clear that would be great to look at too.

Thanks.

Monday 21 April 2008 11:31:01 am

imageMagick would help, but you can also try to tweak the jpg compression level.
Its set in image.ini, look for 'Quality[]=image/jpeg;75'.

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Friday 16 May 2008 7:02:06 am

This is true. It has been like this for years. Your images will indeed be resampled several times. This clearly has something to do with in which sequence you place the image settings in image.ini (or your override). To avoid resampling you should place the <b>largest</b> scaling first.

Like this:

[large]
MIMEType=image/jpeg
Filters[]
Filters[]=geometry/scale=600;600
Filters[]=quality=70

[medium]
Filters[]
Filters[]=geometry/scale=300;300

[small]
Filters[]
Filters[]=geometry/scale=100;100

It's incredible that so few people notice or complain about this.

Hope it helps anyway. :)