pixelation on web images: help!

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help!
my photos on the monitor appear to be pixalated on one website yet the same image shows up smooth on another:
check out the image "sentimantal mercenary" on absolute-arts. see the goo along the flagpost?
http://www.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/portfolio/art/your-art.c gi?login=nausher&title=sentimental_mercenary-1083376684t .jpg

See the same image on nausher.com
http://www.nausher.com/washing%20the%20memories/pages/sentim ental%20mercenary.htm

the high res of these images print out perfectly without a blemish- but i am concerned prospective customers will wrongly judge the quality of the images from these websites.
what should i do?
i dont think it has anything to do with my monitor settings- i am on windows XP, colour quality in the control panel is set at 32bit. any help, advise, suggestions will be hugely appreciated. please email me directly at
thanks, nausher
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screwface
May 3, 2004
On Mon, 03 May 2004 07:13:43 GMT, "Newsgroups" wrote:

help!
my photos on the monitor appear to be pixalated on one website yet the same image shows up smooth on another:
check out the image "sentimantal mercenary" on absolute-arts. see the goo along the flagpost?
http://www.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/portfolio/art/your-art.c gi?login=nausher&title=sentimental_mercenary-1083376684t .jpg

See the same image on nausher.com
http://www.nausher.com/washing%20the%20memories/pages/sentim ental%20mercenary.htm
the high res of these images print out perfectly without a blemish- but i am concerned prospective customers will wrongly judge the quality of the images from these websites.
what should i do?
i dont think it has anything to do with my monitor settings- i am on windows XP, colour quality in the control panel is set at 32bit. any help, advise, suggestions will be hugely appreciated. please email me directly at
thanks, nausher

They are NOT the same image. One of them has been compressed more than the other, probably to make it load faster on the site.
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Al Denelsbeck
May 3, 2004
"Newsgroups" wrote in
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help!
my photos on the monitor appear to be pixalated on one website yet the same image shows up smooth on another:
check out the image "sentimantal mercenary" on absolute-arts. see the goo along the flagpost?
http://www.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/portfolio/art/your-art.c gi?login=na usher&title=sentimental_mercenary-1083376684t.jpg

See the same image on nausher.com
http://www.nausher.com/washing%20the%20memories/pages/sentim ental%20mer cenary.htm

the high res of these images print out perfectly without a blemish- but i am concerned prospective customers will wrongly judge the quality of the images from these websites.
what should i do?
i dont think it has anything to do with my monitor settings- i am on windows XP, colour quality in the control panel is set at 32bit. any help, advise, suggestions will be hugely appreciated. please email me directly at
thanks, nausher

Basically, when the image was reduced in size for display, it ran afoul of the narrow bands of high contrast along the flagpost. There are only so many pixels that can be displayed by a monitor, and they’re basically square. So you get steps instead of smooth tones, because the white and the deep shadow are too close together.

It’s actually there on the other one, too, but not as noticeable, beecause the larger picture allows more of the grey tones in the ‘terminator’, or transitional area, to come through, but you can still see it down near the lower end.

Not much that can be done, at this size. The effect would be reduced if you darkened the white portion of the pole, reducing contrast, but that’s about it. Or if the pole were closer to level, the effect would also be reduced, but it’s kind of a bad move to limit your photography to accomodate web display ;-).

But, bluntly, don’t worry about it. People are used to seeing it on the web, and you’re probably only noticing it because it’s your photo. The photo shows enough quality and skill, even at low resolution, to let most people "fill in the blanks" and realize that it doesn’t actually look like that as a print.

– Al.

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