Avatar Blurry when uploaded

When I upload my an avatar to my site it is all blurry. This is also happening on these support forums but yet i see other users have uploaded there images just fine?!?!?! I have tried several different images of all file sizes and resolutions.

Im confused

Re: Avatar Blurry when uploaded

Looks like a resolution problem. What type of image file is it and what is the native resolution?

Jeff

Re: Avatar Blurry when uploaded

Neocold,

There can be some reasons for this.

- A bug in GD (Whitch PHP version do you use?)
- What is your original size? GD is not powerfull enough to resize bigger files to a suitable result.

Robbie

Re: Avatar Blurry when uploaded

I believe the PHP on the Siteground.com servers is version 5. But regardless the problem is also happening on your forums, so that cant be it.

As for the image size and resolution, the smallest one I tried is 18KB with a 96 X 96 dots per inch resolution and attributes of 203W X 309H the file is jpeg

Re: Avatar Blurry when uploaded

Either the picture is too small to begin with or the jpeg compression rate is too high would be my 2 best guesses. I downloaded your image here from the site and it comes it at 65 x 100 @ 925 bytes after resizing which seems low for sure.

Mine however is 70 x 100 @ 2kb, so I'm guessing that you original size vs. depth is too low.

Jeff

Re: Avatar Blurry when uploaded

I've had this problem too, but found that it works if the photo is saved as a GIF.