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Originally Posted by Ben41
I replaced some of the screenshots from BAR section and fake DShK section of Apocalypse Now and they appear to be much sharper than before. I also replaced some Person of Interest shots in the Heizer and FiveseveN sections. Thanks for fixing it. What was the difference?
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Traditionally we had used php's built in image libraries to create the resized images that appear on the site. In working to improve the speed of the site I configured MediaWiki to instead use Imagemagick (an external linux application on the server) to take load off of the php engine. Unfortunately MediaWiki by default instructs Imagemagick to resize images with 80% quality instead of 100%. This lead to the poorer quality of images you were seeing.
I won't try that again until I can configure it to use 100% quality; then I'll have you test it out with some side by side comparisons to make sure we're not losing image quality.