Quality of resized images?

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the welcome! Appreciate your comment about my templates. I've got a bunch more to post but I'm waiting until I complete my site redesign using CMS Builder [;)]

Here's a sample of the images I uploaded. You'll see the distortion around the edge of the cards (especially on the thumbnail). The original image was crystal clear. On some of the other gallery scripts I've used you could adjust the JPG compression/quality. I realize the higher the quality, the larger the file size. So it's always a trade-off. For some applications, like photoblogs, you might want higher quality jpgs. I was playing with the gallery feature. It's really neat.

Note: I removed the sample images since the problem has been fixed.

Ahh, I see. Ok, I found it. The PHP imagejpeg function takes a 3rd parameter for quality.

I've added having a quality setting to the feature list for an upcoming release. In the meantime, if you want to test it you can try editing the code in /lib/menus/default/upload_functions.php

Search for "imagejpeg" and replace this line:

case IMAGETYPE_JPEG: $savedFile = imagejpeg($targetImage, $targetPath); break;

with this line:

case IMAGETYPE_JPEG: $savedFile = imagejpeg($targetImage, $targetPath, 100); break;

Let me know if that does the trick.

Thanks Dave! Worked great [;)] Appreciate your help.

Here's a new demo page showing images resize at the higher JPG quality. Big difference:

http://www.designsbydarren.com/test/blogPage.php?Sample_Image_Gallery_Created_Using_CMS_Builder-6/

Wow, that is a big difference, thanks for pointing that out.

Just a heads up, this setting has been added to the Admin Menu (under General > Advanced Settings) for the next release (v1.10). So no more having to adjust it in the code. :)