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I've uploaded my images to many sites and forums, so I understand dpi etc. what am I doing wrong here? My images look just horrible after i upload them. On Other sites they look fine.. Any advice???

I think Dakka just squashes the hell out of them.

I dont have such problems, my photography skills are bad enough that by the time it reaches dakka, it dont matter what dakka does to it anymore. hohohoho

Are you using the Dakka 'auto-correct image' function? That can mess with things like colour balance and contrast.

If you've uploaded to other sites, why not just copy the image url from there and use IMG tags?

 Paradigm wrote:
Are you using the Dakka 'auto-correct image' function? That can mess with things like colour balance and contrast.

If you've uploaded to other sites, why not just copy the image url from there and use IMG tags?

I don't think I'm using that image function....unless it's automatic.

Not sure how to use image tags :(

When you're in the post writing screen, see the buttons along the top for things like bold or italic font? Along there is a button that says Image. Press that, copy and paste your pic's URL there (from another site) then click it again to close the tags. You'll get something that looks like this:

[IMG.]your image URL here[/IMG.]

Though without the full stops. Alternatively, you can just type out those opening and closing tags, but the button is quicker.

 Paradigm wrote:
When you're in the post writing screen, see the buttons along the top for things like bold or italic font? Along there is a button that says Image. Press that, copy and paste your pic's URL there (from another site) then click it again to close the tags. You'll get something that looks like this:

[IMG.]your image URL here[/IMG.]

Though without the full stops. Alternatively, you can just type out those opening and closing tags, but the button is quicker.

Or you paste your image link, highlight it as if you were going to copy it again then hit the 'Image' button and it will do both sides of the tag at once.

What kind of resolution are you using? If the image is large enough, it gets really crushed.

I'm curious about this too. I try to use a forum's own hosting when given the chance because free image hosting sites can be real butts at times, plus there's the whole benefit of having a full gallery in one accessible place that isn't going to be cluttered with other junk, but the quality here can be rather depressing. I mean really, this photo hosted is on Imgur and looks like it does on my computer:

DeviantArt is much the same
And here's the very same image on Dakka (no auto-corrects):

Lost a lot of color and looks a bit grainier.

Now, I generally use my iPhone for photos -which is at 72dpi-- and not every image is quite so downgraded... but other sites are able to host the same exact photo without much issue, so I wouldn't think it's my camera that's at fault here.

 Ouze wrote:
What kind of resolution are you using? If the image is large enough, it gets really crushed.

72dpi 1800 x 2300 pixels

so what you are saying is way too big so it's getting crunched?

Nah, 2300 is large but what I thought might be causing a problem was larger. I uploaded a few really large images (like 4kish) once and they looked awful.

Really huge images do get a bit squashed as we only do a 3 stage shrink to avoid the server's processors getting too backlogged. We have multiple TBs of images uploaded now, and due to limited resources have to compress to jpg 95% quality.

If you upload in PNG or GIF format, it will get re-encoded to JPG and will look very rough. If you are uploading a JPG, upload it at 100% (or a raw photo) for the best result.