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Brighter.Tomorrow
February 6th, 2011, 05:18 PM
Currently this is what my signature looks like: http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/signaturepics/sigpic18301_12.gif
This is what it looks like, uploaded to another site: http://oi51.tinypic.com/2h67crb.jpg

As you can see, it got highly degraded, this has happened with every signature of mine, and I've noticed it on other's also.
I think it would be really great and look alot better, if there was away that the staff could upgrade the signature uploading in a way that allowed it to look true to the original image.
Wisconsin
February 6th, 2011, 07:06 PM
dude i dont see any difference at all! and i studied this for almost 10 mins trying to find ONE SINGLE change. so idk what ur talking about but......idk lol
ackmedsgirl666
February 6th, 2011, 07:07 PM
its moved further over and its not inline with the signature
Jess
February 6th, 2011, 07:10 PM
yeah I see the second one is less blurrier...
Perseus
February 6th, 2011, 07:10 PM
dude i dont see any difference at all! and i studied this for almost 10 mins trying to find ONE SINGLE change. so idk what ur talking about but......idk lol

The text is blurier. That's what it is like with my signature, too.
Maverick
February 6th, 2011, 07:17 PM
Guys, this is a not for profit site that's ad free. Everything can't be in high definition and have all the bells and whistles with the enormous amount of people here. Just be glad for what you have.
Syvelocin
February 6th, 2011, 07:22 PM
dude i dont see any difference at all! and i studied this for almost 10 mins trying to find ONE SINGLE change. so idk what ur talking about but......idk lol

The quality is lower.

When you upload a sig that's above the file size limit, it is downsized. Meaning the quality is going to stink compared to the original picture.

That's the problem with a lot of picture sigs. They're all above 50kbs, and you can't even make transparent siggies above 50kbs because they'll just upload with a white background. At least it's workable for the picture sigs :/
Origami
February 6th, 2011, 10:59 PM
I agree with Ant, and I'm likely the biggest advocate for sigs. Hell, I'd like the old dimensions back, but just do what I've done- in time you can look past the degrading quality and size limitations. It's not that big of a deal.
Fushigi
February 6th, 2011, 11:01 PM
dude i dont see any difference at all! and i studied this for almost 10 mins trying to find ONE SINGLE change. so idk what ur talking about but......idk lol



agree!! i cant figure out the difference... ;P
UnknownError
February 10th, 2011, 06:03 PM
dude i dont see any difference at all! and i studied this for almost 10 mins trying to find ONE SINGLE change. so idk what ur talking about but......idk lol

agree!! i cant figure out the difference... ;P

On first one image is much blurrier (You, or at least I, can see that on the boys face & the horse.) and text isnt as clear.
Origami
February 10th, 2011, 06:13 PM
To see the differences, you more than likely have to have a trained eye, or be used to comparing A from B. The differences are there, and they are dramatic- to me at least; but I'm the high-quality detecting bot of a man. The point stands though, a sig upgrade isn't needed. I've always been able to tolerate VT quality; however, I do despise the size restrictions. But as Ant said, it's ad-free, so deal with it.
Amnesiac
February 10th, 2011, 09:03 PM
It's the JPEG compression at work. I'm surprised so many of you didn't see this. I guess I have my years of using PNG and SVG to thank.

If you don't want it to look as bad, upload it as a PNG or GIF file like I did mine. With JPEG you're asking for it to look worse.

Meh.
Origami
February 10th, 2011, 09:07 PM
It's the JPEG compression at work. I'm surprised so many of you didn't see this. I guess I have my years of using PNG and SVG to thank.

If you don't want it to look as bad, upload it as a PNG or GIF file like I did mine. With JPEG you're asking for it to look worse.

Meh.

This is not true. I only save in PNG file format and using Perseus as an example, who is using a sig I made, the compression hinders even PNG files. You have lo-res flat colors in your sig, thus you're unable to see any actual compression difference. And on top of that, a JPEG file can actually match PNG files in quality if you know how to compress it properly. So no, it's not file types, it's some sort of compressor in between upload and VT placing it in your sig.