[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6289: Allow definition of thumbnail quality

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#6289: Allow definition of thumbnail quality
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 Reporter:  RyanWilliams    |        Owner:  westi 
     Type:  enhancement     |       Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.5   
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.5   
 Severity:  minor           |   Resolution:  fixed 
 Keywords:                  |  
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Comment (by RyanWilliams):

 Perhaps, but in that case there should definitely be an automatic quality
 adjustment that's based on the dimensions.

 The inadequacy of 75 as a quality level when the dimensions variate higher
 or lower than the default dimensions is what prompted me to enter this
 ticket. If 2.5's thumbnail size setting is set to much lower than the
 default, the quality muddies the image into illegibility; if it's set much
 higher, it's not compressing it *enough* and the file size balloons
 unnecessarily.

 Perhaps simply having quality regions would be sufficient. That is, the
 quality starts off high at smaller sizes, and goes down in steps to a
 minimum of, say, 50.

 There've already been numerous people saying the thumbnails look horrible
 after using 2.5 RC1's dimension editor, and having to hack their files on
 the WordPress forums to compensate; if people are already unhappy with it
 in the RC1 stage, I imagine lots more people will be unhappy once it's put
 into production use.

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