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Graphic Avatars get messy when shrunk.
It seems from what I can tell, that photo avatars look fine when made smaller. However, graphic avatars (like mine) get very pixelated. Just an observation. Maybe its time for me to try and get a good picture of myself...
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Chris, we make an interesting tradeoff when it comes to jpeg images, that may be the wrong one. When implementing the code that automatically resizes and crops your avatar to the right size for our formats, I reduced the quality of the jpeg encoding to save space. Specifically, I didn't want the avatar grid's that you see sometimes on the site to add 150K extra download to the page. That may have been the wrong decision, and I'd like to hear your (and everyone else's) opinion on the matter. I decided to trade snappier page loads for visual niceness, but it's an easy decision to reverse.
Note, we don't do this for lossless images such as gifs and pngs. We did, for a couple weeks, convert them to jpeg but I quickly got smacked down on that bright idea. :)
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Inappropriate?Hi Chris! It might not only be that it's graphic, but also what kind of file type it is. We support jpeg files, and convert all other file types into .jpg, which sometimes causes the images to pixelate. This isn't my particular area of knowledge though, so hopefully one of the development guys will pop in and better answer your question.
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Inappropriate?I went looking for a better graphic for you (your graphic isn't super clean and crisp to start with), but it's hard to find a shot of Calvin that isn't a pixelated .gif file! On a random side note, searching turned up this anime version of C&H... interesting: http://spacecoyote.deviantart.com/art...
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Inappropriate?Whoops, I was going to reply to this yesterday.
Chris, we make an interesting tradeoff when it comes to jpeg images, that may be the wrong one. When implementing the code that automatically resizes and crops your avatar to the right size for our formats, I reduced the quality of the jpeg encoding to save space. Specifically, I didn't want the avatar grid's that you see sometimes on the site to add 150K extra download to the page. That may have been the wrong decision, and I'd like to hear your (and everyone else's) opinion on the matter. I decided to trade snappier page loads for visual niceness, but it's an easy decision to reverse.
Note, we don't do this for lossless images such as gifs and pngs. We did, for a couple weeks, convert them to jpeg but I quickly got smacked down on that bright idea. :)
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Inappropriate?I cleaned up my graphic and saved it as a png which seems to have done the trick. My mini graphic still seems pretty pixelated, but I'm guessing that is a cached version of the old graphic?
Also, as a designer I also opt for quality over file size.. to a certain extent. I think with something like an avatar, which isn't that big to start with, I would lean towards making the smaller version higher quality to make up for the fact they are being shrunk (which can mess with image quality itself.) Especially looking at some of the participant sized graphics (30x30) I've seen around the site.
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Inappropriate?The clean up really helped, your avatar is looking good.
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