Uploaded image gone wonky?

[SuckerPunch]

Everything looks fine to me in Firefox  ???

[Deadrocks]

I upload a picture of one of my toons, but it isn't showing up anywhere. His page still has the default background picture, and when I go into edit the page, the picture I uploaded isn't shown.

Does it take awhile to process?

[Bliz]

Here: (http://pics.livejournal.com/syrusb/pic/000w0za2) is what I am seeing. I picked 4 images where I thought the scrunchiness was most obvious.

[eabrace]

I'm scratching my head.  Those images look OK to me.  Maybe I'm missing a detail.

[Bliz]

It's easiest to tell if you look at the lines. The non-lined images I made have a much more subtle distortion, and I noticed it on one of them first; thought my eyes were playing tricks on me.

[SuckerPunch]

Hmm, I think I see the issue, but I'm not sure why it would be acting like that.

Is that in Firefox 2 or 3?

[Bliz]

3.0.5 

Figures, I switch to a new browser and get problems. :þ

[SuckerPunch]

FF3 is the bomb diggity.  I'm not seeing the same thing, but i'll poke around on various systems and see what I can dig up.

[Bliz]

If it helps, I'm noticing the distortion on all images (or most of them) from anyone; the distortion is more difficult to tell on some images, so I can't be 100% sure.  Also, I am not noticing distortion on the overlayed faction/origin/at icons. It could be that they're too small to tell, but I looked pretty hard at 'em.

[Steiner]

I know why it's doing this... I took a peek at the upload script... after user uploads their image, it passes through a script, one that will create a NEW image in it's place in a "secret" location on our server... now with php, when you use GD2 Image Manipulation to create image files, you have a choice to choose compression/quality.

Changing compression on an image that isn't already 75 from the COH client won't cause much distortion. I will assume that you take pride in those images you're using, and that the original they're taken from what almost no compression and HIGH dpi...?

If that's the case, that the script compressed an image that was originally 100 Quality to 75 causing the icky lines.

Up to you SP, but possibly changing the quality margin in the upload script to 100 would fix these... it will cause larger files on our server... but for the price of happy users, lol.

[Bliz]

Ah if high DPI is the case, I have no problem recreating lower-DPI images for display instead. I usually don't bother dropping the DPI for web icons since I don't think I've encountered a problem with it before now. I don't see the need to 'cause the server extra load and whatnot over a simple matter.

[Steiner]

Shouldn't make a HUGE difference...

But whatever is easiest for SP and yourself I guess...

[werewriter]

I uploaded some images this morning, and they didn't show up. I figured they just needed some time. I just checked them again, and now there's no trace of them - even the icon representing an image is gone! I uploaded 201x201px images, and went through the crop tool with them. Is this a new bug or the same old one being persnickety?

[SuckerPunch]

Everything seems to be uploading just fine for me.  Try clearing your cache and try again?

[werewriter]

Everything seems to be uploading just fine for me.  Try clearing your cache and try again?

Cleared all private data in firefox, and uploaded them again. They're not displaying, but the icons were there in the list.

[Bliz]

So I made new lower-quality images and uploaded a handful then noticed that didn't make a difference.

I shrugged off the problem for then, but came back to it today. Everything is proportioned correctly in IE, but Firefox is apparently making just about everything slightly larger.

I had my default font sizes in Firefox set to 16pts Tahoma, and dropped it to 12pts (I'm sorry, 12pt is too tiny fer my eyes to stand regularly), but that didn't seem to fix the problem.

Here's an overlay, with the Firefox image on 25% opacity. You can see the great difference:
https://images.weserv.nl/?url=pics.livejournal.com%2Fsyrusb%2Fpic%2F000w1y9y

Anyone have a clue how I can smack Firefox into displaying correctly?

[SuckerPunch]

You scaled the UI larger?  Or just the font size? 

If you use a different Firefox (on a different machine, presumably at the default UI scaling) do you see the same results?

[Bliz]

I only have one computer. I dunno if I scaled the UI larger. In Firefox's settings all I could change was the default font sizes/types. And I've it set to use a page's set font/size if they are coded so. (Maybe I'm missing something?)

I was looking for some setting that would let me change other sizes and finding nothing.  My DPI in Windows XP is set to 'normal' at 96 (I figured 72 would be the norm...), and that's the closest thing to changing UI scale that I can figure.

I mean.. if this problem is just me I'll deal with it if it can't be changed. I'm probably one of the few out there paying so close attention to notice the difference.

[SuckerPunch]

Well the reason I ask is because that image is a specific size - 200x200.  The only way to make it any different is to scale the size the webpages are displayed at within the browser. 

Based on your overlay, I'd wager that's what is going on.   If that's the case, then there's not much I can do.  However, if it's not, I want to make sure it gets checked out.

[Bliz]

Errr, then do you have any idea how I can change what the browser is doing so it works with a pages default?