Ok, guys, I don't know if you noticed it but recently I've been having some major issues with the picture quality on my blog. Especially, when my skin tone and textured is involved. It drove me up the wall and I finally figured out how to fix that.
Below is the original picture and that is how it was supposed to look BUT right after I upload it on Picassa and add it to my draft, I ended up with the ugliness above. What the freak! Right? My skin look like crap and like I've aged 30 more years. Google was doing "something" to my pictures.
The Solution
If you had the same issue I did, the problem lies within Google+. Go to your Google + profile setting and scroll all the way down to Photos and uncheck Auto Enhance and check the box with Upload my photos at full size. This way it doesn't alter or compress the quality of your original picture and what you see is what you get. After I changed the setting, I no longer have issues with my picture coming out looking like crap. The auto-enhance actually made my pictures look terrible.
thank you for the warning! I'll keep that in mind if I start uploading pics
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DeleteThank you for this post! I've had issues with mine as well! I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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I hoped it did the trick
Deletethank you for the warning!
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DeleteOMGGG thank you!! I tried a bunch of things I couldn't figure out what it was. I ended up switching to PNGs because they don't get compressed but the downside is the file sizes are bigger. I'll go fix my settings now
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Glad this helped
DeleteEven though I don't really blog, this is a great tip for bloggers. I'll definitely keep this in mind should I seriously begin to blog. Thanks.
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DeleteOh jesus thats HUGE difference! You skin is no where as uneven or blotchy as the enhanced one! Glad you found your fix, Im okay with mine, they are always bigger than the set size and resize nicely.
ReplyDeleteI resize all of my pictures and try not to sacrifice too much quality because it uploads faster that way. So when Google was compressing my photos even more than what they have already gone through, it really hurt the quality.
DeleteWow! Thanks for the tip. What a difference :O I changed mine now, so we'll see what my pics look like when I do my next FOTD. Google seems to be capable of ruining anything and everything, I swear.
ReplyDeleteI guess some people don't notice a change if they have always uploaded a large file. However, mine are always resized and compressed before I upload that's why the difference was very distinct.
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ReplyDeleteI don't even use Google+, and I'm not going to. Does that mean there is nothing I can do to get my images unblurred?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what blogger is doing to your pictures or if it has something to do with the way you format it from the getgo. I would suggest start with Google help or search online if someone had the same issue has yours and figured how to fix it.
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ReplyDeleteOh my God. How do I repay you for posting this information? You have nooooo idea how indebted I feel towards you right now. I was completely on the verge of loosing it with all the frustration that Google+ was causing me with stripping colour from my photos. I looked like an alien on crack when I uploaded them.
ReplyDeleteI had to resort to sending the photos to my email, and then copying and pasting them on the body of the post (which made the photos not pinnable). Sigh!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU A MILLION FOR YOUR HELP ON THIS. I have spent months trying to research and rectify this problem to no avail. And, the Google team (when asked for help), did not even respond.
Thank you soooooooooo much!!
You are very welcome. I completely understand the frustration and I figured that if I had that problem, I'm sure there was many out there who did as well so I felt like I needed to pass along the info.
DeleteJesus Christ, let me reiterate everything the person above said! It took me a while to get to the freakin' settings and uncheck everything but boy was it worth it. I've started a mostly visual blog and I was this close to losing my mind and giving up on the whole thing. Google can suck it. Thank you, thank you, a thousand times. Also, why is the internet quiet about this???!!!
DeleteHonestly, I am as surprised as to why people have just been quiet about this but if I find something that affected me and could affect others, I would definitely post about it.
DeleteI could bloody kiss you right now! I've been angsting all over the place, trying to fix my lights, my camera, my Photoshop... Seriously, what person thought to himself, "Ooh, let's totally alter our users' images and not tell them why their "white" background is pink now! They'll LOVE that!!"
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you, thank you! ^_^
You're welcome! By the way, you have a lovely nail blog!
DeleteThanks a lot :)
ReplyDeleteI thought I'm going crazy and couldn't find a way to fix the poor quality...
You're welcome. I hope it's working out for you now :)
DeleteDoes it work for uploaded images or should start with new one? Please Check one of my post below and say me Pang.
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If you upload using Picassa then you will need to tweak the setting on Google + if you want your picture quality to look better. Otherwise, if you are linking a picture uploaded from another site, I don't think you should have that problem.
DeleteThank you thank you thank you!!!
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DeleteThank you so, so much! I swear google+ is the worst thing to ever happen to the internet.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I was wondering why my images looked so so bad!
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