soft uploads

[carrbowl]

so this issue has been talked about, and I honestly thought I was doing something wrong. I was uploading photos to the people section (my fathers day post) and all the photos are the same size (double checked) before I downsized them to the forum...downsized them all the same way and they were all the same size when I uploaded them. Yet once they were uploaded,there were dramatic differences in the sizes and the sharpness of the photos. Am I doing something wrong?? let's see if I can upload two photos and duplicate the issue.

According to my files, 9790-800 is 298.3 K. and 9781-800 is 370.6 K...and after upload 9790-800 is 281.2KB and 9781-800 is 52.2 KB...So some technically genius tell me what the heck I'm doing wrong!!!

[[[Neo]]]

I believe it's because the picture of the Girl has EXIF information in it, AND it's at 300dpi. The picture of the boy does not, and it is 72dpi.

At least that what I gathered by looking at each image.

[carrbowl]

that is interesting...because i have checked very carefully and when I save them both, they are exactly the same...both the same dpi, the same size in inches, the same size in pixels...Am I missing something?

[[[Neo]]]

I don't know - but I do know that when *I* saved them from this website, Windows Vista showed EXIF info on the girl's photo, but not on the boy's. And when I did a Modify Image > Image Size in Adobe Fireworks (easiest way I could think to check it, since I do graphics work often), the DPI for the girl's was 300, and the boy's was 72.

Unfortunately, I don't have any advice though about how to fix what you're experiencing. I'm just able to help identify the clues to troubleshoot.

[Brains]

vBulletin has the option to rescale images uploaded as attachments, and further has a slew of other options to control that rescaling. You also have the option of which image processing libraries to use (GD vs ImageMagick). Not being an admin, I can't check what those options are set to though ;)

[Cajungaltx]

I always upload to photo bucket, then copy the IMG code into my posts.