Hi there

I tried logging onto Armorama at work last week to show my colleagues what's been taking up all my spare time.

When I tried to show them some of my pics (Yeah! Showing off!! ) and photos from other members that had really impressed me, I had a real shock!!!... they all looked terrible!

The pics were really compressed and full of "artefacts".

The PC in question is used for "high-end" graphics work, so its resolution and colour settings are on full. Is there a reason why stuff off the Internet should look so bad?

Any ideas would be great.

Cheers

Rowan

Merlin - some workstations setup to deal with Vector graphics don't deal well with photo type formats ie JPEG or GIF images. Is it a CAD workstation ?

Hi Chuck

Not really... it's all-purpose, but if anything it's optimized for bitmap images.

It's running AOL (hiss.. boo!! :-) ), but I was stunned at just how cr*p everyone's photos looked.

What occurred to me is that maybe some folks always see stuff that way...

all the best

Rowan

See this:
http://www.3d-n-focus.com/AOL_Fix/aol_fix.htm

AOL! ...and to think I use to love it.

Jim

Thanks Jim!! :-)

Maybe you should add our own "AOL Dartboards" to the Cafe Press items!!

Is this worth a "General Alert" to Armorama AOL users? They might not know what they've been missing...

Thanks again

Rowan

My God!!!! you must have been under medication!!


Peter

Eeek! And to think I too used to use it. Never really liked it, it was one of the only ISP's available to me back in the day. What a dog it was on system resources.