Smugmug JPEG compression

cfrey6 · February 19, 2008

I notice lately that when I replace a photo, after a PROOF order and do all the normal post-processing, that the image on the smugmug gallery looks very compressed with plenty of jpeg artifacts.

Take a look at 2 different shots, but in a shot burst.

Did Smugmug start compressing jpegs even more?

Post-processed image below

http://www.freyphotos.com/gallery/4330829_cLSMX#255364507

versus

http://www.freyphotos.com/gallery/4330829_cLSMX#255364525

Andy · February 19, 2008

I'm checking into this, stay tuned.

Andy · February 19, 2008

It is a bug and I've logged it. It's only with the replace tool, and the originals are not affected (they are not compressed or altered - so the prints will be perfect).

We'll get it fixed.

marlof · February 20, 2008

Andy wrote:

It is a bug and I've logged it. It's only with the replace tool, and the originals are not affected (they are not compressed or altered - so the prints will be perfect).

A workaround for the time being (if you only have a few replaced images) I found is to rotate the image, and rotate it back. The rotate tool will create nicely compressed images for you.

cfrey6 · February 20, 2008

Thanks

marlof wrote:

A workaround for the time being (if you only have a few replaced images) I found is to rotate the image, and rotate it back. The rotate tool will create nicely compressed images for you.

Thanks! I thought it was the display sharpening options at first, so I set those all to zero for that gallery and it didn't change anything. That is when I suspected something was wrong.

HoyBoy · August 30, 2008

Andy wrote:

It is a bug and I've logged it. It's only with the replace tool, and the originals are not affected (they are not compressed or altered - so the prints will be perfect).

We'll get it fixed.

Andy, I just experienced a really horrible quality upload when I used the "replace" option. I ended up deleting it and exporting directly from LR to SmugMug again. Problem solved.

I noticed that 6 months ago you mentioned that this issue was being addressed. Can you give us an update?

This is kind of a pain.

Thanks.

manbou · January 6, 2009

Andy, I'm having a similar problem with JPEG artifacts and blurring showing up in my photos after I use Smugmug's crop tool to crop them.

Compare this photo, cropped offline with Microsoft Office Picture Manager:

... to this one, cropped using Smugmug's crop tool. Note the upper tree branches and the sky around them:

Yikes, that's ugly. Note that the Smugmug version looked fine on Smugmug, until I cropped it.

Is a fix in the works?

Thanks.

Andy · January 6, 2009

manbou wrote:

Is a fix in the works?

Thanks.

We'll see if it can be replicated thanks. Stay tuned

manbou · January 6, 2009

Problem solved!
Andy, it looks like Smugmug has since replaced the bottom image in my previous post with a new version at a new URL, and it looks nice and clear:

Assuming you made this happen, thanks for the quick response!

dennismullen · January 6, 2009

Is it fixed yet?
The problem wtth the replace tool was noted in Feb. 08. Almost a year has gone by. How long does it take? Time to put a warning notice on the tool if you're not going to fix it.

Also the arrange tool problem has been going on forever too. Whats up?

Andy · January 6, 2009

dennismullen wrote:

Also the arrange tool problem has been going on forever too. Whats up?

Can you please post about this in a separate thread? Thanks.

Andy · January 6, 2009

dennismullen wrote:

The problem wtth the replace tool was noted in Feb. 08. Almost a year has gone by. How long does it take? Time to put a warning notice on the tool if you're not going to fix it.

I'm having trouble replicating this - have you got a recent example?

Smugmug JPEG compression

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