Can we get higher res thumbnail images?"

[Jason Berland]

When viewing thumbs for LPs, the res seems like its reduced way too much. Example:  http://ia360701.us.archive.org/18/items/kissmegoodbyesou00nabo/kissmegoodbyesou00nabo_001_thumb.jpg

[Hank Bromley (hank-archive)]

Are we talking about the thumbnails available through the details page, or the ones shown on the segment editor page?

In either case, you can always view the full-size image if the thumbnail is too small. Are you asking to have a second set of thumbnails made, that are intermediate in size between the full-size image and the current thumbnails?

[Jason Berland (jasonb-archive)]

The details page. It's not so much that the thumbnail is too small, the
image quality is poor on the thumbnail.

I brought it up to Paul and he thought this could be corrected through
altering the code in the deriver.

In the big scheme of things, this is probably low priority but just
wanted to document it.

Thanks,

Jason

On 9/29/10 2:15 PM, Hank Bromley wrote:
> Are we talking about the thumbnails available through the details page,
> or the ones shown on the segment editor page?
>
> In either case, you can always view the full-size image if the thumbnail
> is too small. Are you asking to have a second set of thumbnails made,
> that are intermediate in size between the full-size image and the
> current thumbnails?
>
>

[Hank Bromley (hank-archive)]

It's true that we make the thumbnails at a rather low quality level, but with an image that small (192 x 192 pixels), it's not going to help much to use higher quality. Here's a copy of the existing thumbnail:

http://home.us.archive.org/~hank/nabors_60.jpg

and here's one made at an extremely high quality level:

http://home.us.archive.org/~hank/nabors_95.jpg

The new one is more than three times the filesize of the original, but visually isn't very different at all, unless you zoom it to more than 100%. If you want to be able to read the print, you need a larger image than 192 x 192.