I noticed today that some, not all, of the thumbnails and full sized images look fuzzy not pixeleted, but smeared, not clear. I uploaded an image this morning and it was so fuzzy, I immediately deleted it. I uploaded a second one and it is a little better, but not as clean as it should be. Not near as defined the one I have of it on my desktop. It is not just my images though, about half of the ones I looked at today are like that. Like they have lost defined edges. Is this something with my computer, or am I imagining things?

examples?

Going Supersonic, Huntin' Wabbits, Nerve Endings, Screech Owl, and my own, The Road To Heaven. There are some others I haven't looked at closely, but look fuzzy in the thumbs

Those images to me are all nice and clear!
JuneBug

Must be my computer then. Might it be the latest update on the video card?

could be your glasses, try these ~@^@~

Probably. The ones that Medicaid provides aren't very good.

Agree with June, all your images are nice and clear.

Probably my computer then.

see if you can snoop around in your book and download latest drivers for video card...

got the latest update this morning keep everything up to date

Actually I have noticed that after looking at my own gallery with MANY different computers, it is actually the monitors that have the most effect for me. My monitor sees every dang detail because it is reletively bright. I actually spend well over an hour in Photoshop making sure I see no pixelation before I upload it. Video cards have actually pretty little effect unless it is a very low (4mb) video card. My video card is a 256mb nVidia video card, and the image itself doesn't look too much different when I viewed it on an 8mb video card. All that changes is pretty much the rate at which you can process frames (among other things). But as far as blurriness, it is actually suggested that you slightly compress your image as a jpeg before you upload(rather than upload as a full BMP or PNG). I use The Gimp to compress them because it compresses a 5mb picture file into a 1mb picture with virtually no change in quality. Maybe you can try that?

I looked a little in your gallery, and In Tierazon, there is an option in there called "Auto-Anti Alias". When you check this, the program will both Render and then Fix up the edges. When you finish uploading, the server compresses the image before it is posted up here. If you compress the image a little with The Gimp, the server won't have much to compress after that, so the image quality wouldn't change as much.

Would you rather have a 5mb picture compressed to a 0.2mb file? Or would you rather have a 1mb file compressed to 0.2mb file? (Assuming you upload in 1600x1200)

My computer is less than a year old. I keep everything up to date and I use the tech support provided by the manufacturer to help me with most issues.. It is not an expensive one, but not cheap either. At least for me. I already use MSNs PictureIt 9 to convert everything to jpg. and do some manipulation. Not a lot because I usually prefer the images the way they come from the program. I am still seeing some images very fuzzy including my icon, which didn't look like that yesterday. Well, she is a little fuzzy but that comes naturally.

Your icon looks no different to me...after all a large image sized down to a 60x60 icon will definately be a little fuzzy...

I agree with Radjedhuty, the screem is changing the appearance of an image, My images looks differents on another computer then mine.

There is something different today, still not sure what it is. She is supposed to be fuzzy. She is a Persian Cat. Some images are clear as can be and others are very fuzzy not pixilated, but Fuzzy like the kitty

Well it definately is not pixelated, but I guess if it looks pixelated to you then possibly your color settings were changed? (Display Settings in the control pannel). If that doesn't work then I guess it would be a problem with the drivers...never heard of that kind of issue before though.

I took a look at Screech Owl and at 1600x1200 it's perfect. Pixelation or noise are definately not negative aspects I'd attribute to that image.

Must be my computer then, don't know why things sould be different today than yesterday, Oh well

Found the problem. Thanks for all the help. MSN did an upgrade and changed my connection speed settings.

Good ol' Microsoft

Tried to deny it too, made them tell me how to fix it. Took me in circles to do it, could have been fixed on one step made me use 5. Wish updates came with instructions

again...Good ol' Microsoft. ;D

I like the fact that they call something which lowers the quality of your images an "upgrade"...

*hugs his mac*

Example?

? Um, I was talking about the fact that they "upgraded" Morwyn's service and it made the images fuzzy. Sorry if I was unclear.

oh no I misunderstood, I had a caffiene low..Lol

Whenever Microsoft gives us an upgrade...they actually mean they are slamming your system's resources even more so it doesn't surprise me >_>

very true.. i need to get me a good copy of Linux.. be done with Windows for good..

I wish I could...too bad Compatibility is an enormous wall

I recently wiped Mandrake linux off my machine and went back to Windows XP, much as I hate to admit it. Mandrake was good, but I just couldn't run the programs I wanted or find decent substitutes. Photoshop actually worked fairly decently, but most programs had problems (such as dreamweaver). I tried a variety of free linux programs and gave it a few months but eventually I went back to dumb old windows.

I don't like microsoft but everyone codes for windows and now I am helping to maintain their market share, damnit. In the end I went for the selfish option, having tried the ethical route for a few months.

Understand what you mean. Don't like it but it is still the easiest to work with even when they mess you up. I don't like the other isps very well, msn gives you the best features for your money, although it's my sisters money that pays for mine.

I love my ISP to death (COX Communications), if ever I needed help, I could litterally do an instant chat with an analyzer within 10 minutes tops. The technical helpers there also know what they're doing.

Yea CaptainHero, games are also a big letdown on Linux

um, I think CH was talking about the OS, not ISP.

i know i was responding based on Morwyn

Yes, I was talking about OS. Thankfully I have avoided a flame war so far... It was just my personal choice anyway, I'm not making any judgements (well, maybe a few...) I was very impressed with the Linux community though.