[Suggestion] Quality setting for avatars

[dutchbb]

IMO the quality setting for creating the avatars is set a bit low ATM (seems to be 4kb max). This creates notable jpg artifacts and is a bit ugly. I think the quality setting can be set a bit higher without really making huge files (maybe 6kb is enough to get rid of the artifacts).

So is it possible to add a setting to the Options > Performance > Avatar quality or something?

If not, is there a way to change this in the code?

 

[Andy.N]

I mentioned this before and I would definitely think it will help create an impression of high quality on the forum, given how much we use avatar on Xenforo

 

[Lucas]

Indeed, I've also noticed this. It would be nice to improve the overall quality of avatars, since the re-sizing tends to make 'em a little bit ugly.

 

[CyberAP]

Support this.

 

[Blandt]

.... xenforo doesn't support ImageMagick at the moment

 

[anotheralias]

I'd like the option of using PNG instead of JPG -- just tossing that in, along with my general support. Avs are user-end -- those things should always be as dazzling as possible. I'd trade in a whole lot of admin conveniences for better avs.

 

[Abracadaniel]

High quality previews for avatars will be neat.

 

[Andy.N]

Has anyone verified if Beta 4 has improved the avatar quality?

 

[Dean]

Has anyone verified if Beta 4 has improved the avatar quality?

Not sure.

I just uploaded a animated gif, and it is only animated in the profile pop-up, and not in the post bit - which is excellent news to me. I took a quick look at the admincp and did not see anything obvious where there may be a setting.

 

[Paul B]

Has anyone verified if Beta 4 has improved the avatar quality?

Yes it has.

• .png files are now preserved as .png
• .jpg quality has been increased
• .gif animations are now visible in the member card

These changes are not applied retrospectively to existing avatars.

 

[Paul B]

I've also moved this thread to resolved suggestions as the OP's request now seems to have been fulfilled in that better quality avatars are now standard.

 

[Andy.N]

I've also moved this thread to resolved suggestions as the OP's request now seems to have been fulfilled in that better quality avatars are now standard.

Any idea if the image library now uses GD or ImageMagik?

 

[Paul B]

It uses GD.

 

[dutchbb]

Good to see this has been implemented