Lower Upload Quality
Not sure what's going on but over the last few weeks it seems like my pictures get extremely compressed once I upload them. They get pixelated and don't look like how they do in Lightroom. Is this a problem with my export settings? Something on the server end? Is anyone else having this problem? Any answers or help would be appreciated.
Chris Breitigan Interesting...Not sure what it could be then.
Jennifer I don't use Lightroom, so maybe it's some change in the file from that? Have you uploaded photos from it before okay?
Chris Breitigan Yes, I only started noticing it recently.
Aaron Can't see what you're talking about on any of your photos.
Chris Breitigan
Here is the file straight from lightroom:
chrisbreitigan.com/img/IMG_098...
and here it is uploaded for today:
cdn.tookapic.com/photos/2016/9...
Satoshi T
I received them and compare.
File from Chris's site(IMG_0982.jpg) : 678,658bytes
File from Tookapic(download for free, a0778de...9cd.jpg) : 678,658bytes
I watched them, I feel no difference.
Paweł Kadysz We keep the originals on server and do not compress them. I think @Chris is talking about the difference in quality between the original and resized image we display on a photo page.
Paweł Kadysz Showing this photo every single time to every single user actually costs money. We've spent around two weeks trying to figure out the best file size and quality ratio to make it acceptable for both you as user who sees the pic and us, as people who pay for it.
Your original photo is 680kb. Our pic is 80kb, which is more than 8 times less than the orginal. If we were to display images with no compression, we'd go broke in half a month.
tigg So every time we click and view an image, it costs you?
Paweł Kadysz Actually, yes. Hosting these images does cost money. Delivering it to your browser does cost money. I wish it was hosted in a magical place where noone would charge us for bandwidth and using up space. But it doesn't work like that. We need to pay for servers and storage.
Of course it's not like every time you see an image on tookapic we're being charged $10. Our bandwidth and hosting costs are about $800 a month (these are only the server costs). Imagine what would it be if didn't compress the images. It would cost 5-8 times more.
Chris Breitigan So when we upload pictures, they get resized and compressed and that is what is causing the decrease in image quality? I completely understand the reasoning for this, you need to keep things affordable, I just make sure I understand you correctly.
Paweł Kadysz That's exactly what happens. Even if you upload a 20 megapixel photo it will be resized and compressed so it loads fast and doesn't use a lot of bandwidth. We do keep the originals on our servers though. Just in case you want to sell them or use them in a photo book.
tigg I obviously realised that running the site costs money - serious money, especially with what seems to me a very fast server. I had no idea that 'every click costs' - bit of a double edged sword, isn't it? I'm afraid mere users and not hosts have little idea of the variety and size of the costs. Thank you for your enlightening reply. Glad I was able to pay my hero fee within a week or so of you introducing them; felt it was a service well with the money.
Ian Prince Totally understand and respect this. A nice side-effect is that compressed photos eat up less of your mobile data plan, if you use tookapic out-and-about like I do often. A win-win :)
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Jennifer I haven't had this happening, and I've actually been uploading much higher quality/size photos than usual.