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[casportpony]

Can you email the original to me? [email protected]

 

[Gamefowl22]

I'm not that tech savvy either, but I think what you might be seeing is a result of your image being downsized to fit in the avatar thingy, then upsized.

Does mine look ok?

 

[casportpony]

Does mine look ok?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Can you email the original to me? [email protected]

Sure.

 

[casportpony]

Then I'll have my friend take a look at it and ask him to write up something that explains why it looks blurry.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Then I'll have my friend take a look at it and ask him to write up something that explains why it looks blurry.

Ok sounds good. I sent the picture as actual size.

 

[casportpony]

From my friend
"Guessing ...

The "fuzzy" avatar pictures are just an artifact of how they are being processed. When the avatar picture is uploaded it is (apparently) scaled down to ~200 pixels tall or wide and that is the picture that is stored.

When a page is viewed that scaled down picture is what is sent back to the client/browser. If the client/browser then scales up that picture it is going to look fuzzy and/or blocky. On a computer browser that only seems to happen if you have the browser zoom set at greater than 100%, but on a tablet/phone where the formatting is different it could be trying to scale up all the time.

It's a trade-off. If the avatar picture were stored in a larger format then that would use more server storage, and use more bandwidth when retrieving pages. That would potentially increase hosting costs, but more importantly it would slow page loading especially for users on low bandwidth connections."

 

[casportpony]

I did an experiment:

Your original

Cropped of original:

Cropped resized to 200 pixels x 200 pixels

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I did an experiment:

Your original
View attachment 1694077
Cropped of original:
View attachment 1694079
Cropped resized to 200 pixels x 200 pixels
View attachment 1694078

So it would still be fuzzy even if I cropped the original?

 

[casportpony]

So it would still be fuzzy even if I cropped the original?

Yes, I think so.