Album cover art quality
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Topic: Album cover art quality
Posted By: Windhawk
Subject: Album cover art quality
Date Posted: October 13 2008 at 15:09
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Here's a quickie: When I upload cover art for new releases, I see that all of them gets resized to 200x200 pixels (or whatever is closest in size). Would it be possible to have a better default resizing? 300x300 would be much better, 500x500 a preferred quality. Even if the album graphics will never be shown in 500x500, it looks much better when sized down in quality. Big thing is though, that the 200x200 image size makes most cover arts look rather poor - especially when blown up in size on the individual album pages. ------------- Websites I work with: http://www.progressor.net http://www.houseofprog.com My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/ |
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: October 13 2008 at 15:12
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300x300 would be fine for me, just not on the front page! However, I think the problem is both ways: there are rare albums for which we find small covers that automatically get enlarged to 200x200, looking this way so poor. ------------- 
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Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: October 13 2008 at 15:22
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Well, the way it is now, with images scaled down to 150x150 on the front page, is very nice I think. But there's a huge difference in quality if the original that gets sized down is 200, 300 or 500 pixels, the difference is rather spectacular. If the database images could be 300 or 500 the small covers on the front page - scaled down to 150 - would look extremely much sharper and better ;-) ------------- Websites I work with: http://www.progressor.net http://www.houseofprog.com My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/ |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 13 2008 at 17:25
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The same thing happens with Band images - I've spent ages trying to get the Mermaid Kiss pic to look right - for some reason the database re-compresses the uploaded image (badly). ------------- What? |
Posted By: XunknownX
Date Posted: October 14 2008 at 19:16
| Agree, too many albums shows with low quality artwork, plus many albums have the wrong artwork as well (reissues instead of original). |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 03:23
| If the wrong artwork is shown, please report it in the "Errors and ommisions" section. Remember though that some albums have different artwork in different territories. Our policy is to show the sleeve for where the album was first issued, usually the band's home country. |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 04:14
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Re Image quality: as far as I know, the images are stored unchanged on the server. The resizing is done in your browser. Max allowed us a while ago to upload 500x500 images, but they are not always available - which is why we sometimes use smaller sizes. The maximum size has been 200x200 for quite long, that explains the poor quality of older album covers.
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Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 10:19
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The server do resize artist images still though - even if images the size of 500 pixels are allowed uploaded, they get resized to 250 pixels after uploading - which looks funny when they get blown up to 300 pixels on the artist pages. Any chance to fix that? Have started replacing album images - taken care of about 100 so far - someone sent me 450 or so scans, so I'll mostly be working with these at first. ------------- Websites I work with: http://www.progressor.net http://www.houseofprog.com My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/ |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 12:29
I'll check with M@X. He's getting used to me... 
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