Hi, Russ,

What is disturbing is that the pictures were perfectly fine about a 
month ago.  It's only recently that they've become fuzzy.
I have not tried Facebook on another computer, but my son, who is 
computer knowledgeable and does use Facebook, says that he does not have 
this problem on his own computer.
We did try changing the resolutions on my computer, but that did not 
help the issue.

Any ideas of what to try next?

Thank you,
Erif.


On 7/6/2010 9:00 AM, Russ Poffenberger wrote:
> Hi Erif,
>
> I don't use Facebook or other social networking sites, but I do know 
> that most such sites will scale back the resolution or select lower 
> quality options for compressable image formats (such as jpeg) to save 
> on server disk space and bandwidth. This will usually result in the 
> image appearing distorted to some degree. You would have to imagine 
> that storing literally hundreds of millions of photo in their full 
> quality and resolution would take enormous amounts of disk space on 
> their servers not to mention the amount of bandwidth required by their 
> internet connections to download them to the online users. These are 
> tradeoffs that have to be made.
>
> Not sure if there are any settings you can change in these sites to 
> use higher quality photos or not, but something to look for.
>
> I doubt that it is anything wrong with your computer. Have you tried 
> the same sites/pictures on a different computer?
>
> Russ Poffenberger
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> On 7/6/2010 8:31 AM, Erif Thunen wrote:
>> Some of the photos were uploaded from my computer, some posted by 
>> others.  All the photos that appear on Facebook are at least a little 
>> fuzzy, some badly pixilated.
>> When I view photos on Flickr, they appear somewhat pixilated, as 
>> well, though not as badly as the Facebook photos.
>>
>> However, the photos that I have on my computer that are not on line 
>> are perfectly clear, even the same ones that are fuzzy on Facebook.
>>
>> I hope that answers your question.  I can't imagine what's going on 
>> here.  I would be very grateful for any ideas or advice.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Erif.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/5/2010 7:46 PM, David Gillett wrote:
>>> Are the photos that look "fuzzy" ones that you have posted, or ones 
>>> that
>>> other people have posted?  Are they posted directly to Facebook, or to
>>> some other host (Flickr, Photobucket, etc) and then linked to from
>>> Facebook?
>>>
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