Wow, that is a big difference. So now I can blame photobucket for my crappy icons, right? ;)
But they really shouldn't take down the quality that much. Icons don't go over the allowed size anyway, do they? Not nice of them. And I have to look for GoT icons now. *stalks the internet*
They used to say they did that when one tried to upload big wallpapers. But icons? Come on. They only are 40kb max. Not fair. Especially if they don't give a warning.
Oh, thanks for the offer, but I already found a few at asoiaf_icons that I liked. But if you see one you think I might particularly like, feel free to link away anyway. No need to get out of your way and look for any, though.
They just send me an email informing me that I can choose a profile pic and whatnot. Like that is important. They clearly have their priorities all wrong. ;)
Photobucket is very weird that way! I switched to using LJ's pic hosting for layouts and such because of it, despite LJ's crappy (or should I say nonexistent) interface - I noticed that if I uploaded the images to Photobucket, they'd load fine the first time or three, and then begin to horribly degrade despite being stored properly on the service itself. Not sure if it's the same problem you're having, but ... yeah. Photobucket is just bizarre sometimes.
Yeah there's a huge difference. This has been going on for years now. Basically photobucket and tinypic (tinypic didn't use to do it, but lately I notice TP is doing it too) reduce the quality of .jpg files. Sometimes not immediately after uploading, but eventually they do. If you upload icons as a .png file then there's no problem, but any .jpg file on both PB and TP get reduced in quality. It always makes me really sad to see that to be perfectly honest (I used to always try to make people aware of that but most of the time they didn't seem to notice; you can always tell as well by the file size though).
the latest ones (of jon) you made aren't that extreme, I mean in comparison to these, it's weird, maybe it's because some files are bigger than the other ones, because the one you re-uploaded of Viserys isn't that extreme either and Dany's isn't either
It's really weird.. someone said earlier that the wuality changes over time. That they do it in retrospect. The ones I uploaded for the battle haven't been as bad in the beginning either.
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But they really shouldn't take down the quality that much. Icons don't go over the allowed size anyway, do they? Not nice of them. And I have to look for GoT icons now. *stalks the internet*
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There are a fw good coms for GoT icons. I could look around if you like.
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Oh, thanks for the offer, but I already found a few at
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And that is the community I would have suggested first :)
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Hehe. Well, then I went to the best right way, I guess. :)
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and you sure did :)
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Apparently I have good instincts. :D
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Soem people here said if you save the icons as pnd there is no such problem.
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Love your icon, btw :)
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I don't have any problems with my icons when I save them as png, but jpg stuff always loses some quality, for some weird reason.
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Weirdos.
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That's how I LIKE that Tyrion icon. Crisp and awesome.
So maybe save them as pngs next time, seeing the comments here, that seems to do the trick?
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I will definately try this :)
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I think from now on I shall only be using PB for non-jpg files.
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Especially on the second one!
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