Recently started using Kbin and I find the preview images are squished when I'm looking at a magazine feed. To view full size I need to click the image to go into the post, then click again to see the full sized image....
You'd think after hanging out on public social media with musicians and creative type folks for a few years, I'd run into at least one visual artist that would interested in collaboration. Sadly, no.. #visualart#albumcover#images
see attached image, but basically having the images on the right side makes it so hard to "read" a post with an image, going back and forth with your eyes to "get" the whole post. So much easier to just put the images between the up-/downvote buttons and the text post....
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I'm generally not a big fan of #Apple (understatement of the century), but I've read about the next version of #Safari officially supporting #JpegXL and I'm really glad that this is happening. I'm looking forward to the associated changes to #WebKit making it into the engine as it is used by other #FLOSS browsers too —and hopefully this will finally push @Mozilla into enabling #jxl in mainline #Firefox OOTB.
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🆕 blog! “Selectively Compressed Images - A Hybrid Format”
I have a screenshot of my phone's screen. It shows an app's user interface and a photo in the middle. Something like this: If I set the compression to be lossy - the photo looks good but the UI looks bad. If I set the compression to be lossless - the UI looks good but […]
If I set the compression to be lossy - the photo looks good but the UI looks bad.
If I set the compression to be lossless - the UI looks good but the filesize is huge.
Is there a way to selectively compress different parts of an image? I know WebP and AVIF are pretty magical but, as I understand it, the whole image is compressed with the same algorithm and the same settings.
There are two ways to do this. The impossible way and the cheating way.
In theory it should be possible to tell an image format to compress some chunks of an image with a different compression algorithm.
And yet... none of the documentation I've found shows that's possible.
GiMP's native XCF and Photoshop's PSD files work; they store different layers each of which can have a different filetype. I understand that TIFF and .djvu also have that capability.
But those sorts of files don't display in web browsers.
That draws the JPG then draws the PNG on top of it. If the PNG has a transparent section, the JPG will show through. The JPG can be set to as low a quality as you like and the PNG remains lossless.
Embedded images are Base 64 encoded, which does lose some of the compression advantages. But, overall, it's smaller than a full PNG and better quality than a full JPG.
Look, if it's stupid but it works it's not stupid.
But surely there must be a way of doing this natively?
Quick note: If you follow me, you probably noticed that I post occasional photos. Unfortunately, the default display behavior on most Mastodon instances and clients crops many images unless you click on them. I hate this, as does every other photographer here, but it's not likely to change any time soon.
You can disable this broken behavior in the Mastodon web interface by unchecking a box under display preferences.
But in any case, please be aware you might not be seeing the whole photo.
@mattblaze Good reminder! I changed this setting as soon as I started using mastodon - so much nicer to see the full photo without having to click on it every time! 😁
Is there a way to resize preview images in Kbin?
Recently started using Kbin and I find the preview images are squished when I'm looking at a magazine feed. To view full size I need to click the image to go into the post, then click again to see the full sized image....
images on the left side would make kbin easier to read
see attached image, but basically having the images on the right side makes it so hard to "read" a post with an image, going back and forth with your eyes to "get" the whole post. So much easier to just put the images between the up-/downvote buttons and the text post....
images of most common(4:3,16:9,...) image aspect ratios should not be disorted/ cropped to the point where it's unreadable/ unrecognizable in the thumbnail
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