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hello,

I want to had t shirt pics on my website. I have taking good picture so far and tried to upload them but their quality turned out really bad. Is there a way to avoid that? does concrete5 compress the pictures? my original is 45kb and in my file manager as well. I don't undestand why/where I lost quality...
FYI there are jpg pictures.
thanks in advance,

Adeline
 
citytech2 replied on at Permalink Reply
citytech2
Hi
Have you saved the images in Photoshop with the option "Save for Web". I've faced similar problem with one of my clients site & he refer me to save the image in Photoshop as "Save for Web". And the quality of image was remaining same. Hope it will help.

Citytech
mesuva replied on at Permalink Reply
mesuva
If you are using something like the image block and resizing the image, concrete5 needs to resize and re-compress the picture, so you run the risk of further losing quality. This applies any time you re-compress images and isn't specific to concrete5.

The two options I would suggest are:
- Upload your images in a higher quality in the first place
- You could edit /config/site.php and put in it
define('AL_THUMBNAIL_JPEG_COMPRESSION', 90);

to adjust the jpeg compression quality. I think it's set to 80 by default, with 100 being full quality. You'd want to carefully adjust this though as you could end up with other files on your site being too big.