These is a recurrent topic. We have been having problems with image compression previously, as there seems that the software tries to compress each image uploaded by the users. We are a photography forum and our users complain about their photos loosing quality (they loose quality indeed). Till n…

Make sure you have recompress original jpg quality set to 100, this one bit me for a long time and I just figured it out.

Thank you, I will try. I had it set to 97, I had thought that recompress was only activated when the image exceeded image thresholds. I have configured composer media parameters like this (I don’t fully understand the meaning of all of them): image bytes optimization threshold: 1259520 (a bit mo…

From what I understand and verified in my testing is that the recompress original jpg quality setting will resample the image no matter what if it is set below 100. max image size kb is what will trigger a resample if it’s over this size, even with the above setting at 100. Both of these happen ser…

Well, thank you so local optimización should be off and 100 the recompress factor. I gave to donsomebtests ti see hoy all these work It seens complucated and not ideal If imagen comoky ti the limita they should not be toyches and only compressed to the target size when they exceed the limit in siz…

Thank you, I will try to, I have to make tests on my own to see if the files Yolanda added are changed when they comply with the thresholds, I have several people complaining about It but I could not corroborate it by myself. If I find an example I will provide it.

Have there been changes in image compression recently?

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) April 20, 2023, 6:26pm 6

Hey @ariznaf

Could you share a link to an original picture < 2000px and < 1.2 MB, and to the recompressed one after upload?

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Have there been changes in image compression recently?

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