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Mike Teezie
Nov 15, 2005, 01:13 PM
I'm using SimpleViewer's (http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/) code to display Flash galleries on my site.

The catch is, I made a test gallery a few days ago, and some of my friends told me the images were a bit distorted when they viewed them - even though the images looked perfect on my display. They were on Macs and PCs both, on a variety of browsers.

I've uploaded a gallery of a photo shoot I just did with my girlfriend, and again the gallery looks great on my display.

I just wanted to see if a few folks could look at my gallery, and tell me if the images are looking as sharp as they should.

Here (http://mnjordan.com/gallery/shoot1/) is the gallery.

Here is a sample image (http://mnjordan.com/images/misc/farrah179.jpg) to compare the gallery to.

Thanks in advance.



kgarner
Nov 15, 2005, 04:22 PM
They look fine to me (PC, Win XP, Firfox 1.5 RC2). They may be referring to the slight compression artifacts that you get when you display an image at a smaller resolution than what it is. You can see it along her arms and almost anywhere there is a high jump in contrast. This is due to the fact that browsers don't use high quality resizing algorithms. But other than that I don't notice any distortion.

Mike Teezie
Nov 15, 2005, 04:47 PM
Thanks for looking kgarner.

I saved the images out in Photoshop to the resolution that the xml file sets the images at, so there shouldn't (in theory) be a problem there.

I got my mom to look at them from her PC w/IE at work, and she said they were distorted there.

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