Okay, found out two things today that I know will be helpful for fanartists. If you don't use photobucket, the second one doesn't apply to you but the first one does
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Thanks for all the info, chica! I had no idea this was happening. I opted myself, angeluncensored, ats_hush, ca_stillness and my icon comm out. I guess at AU, CA and ats I'll have to locked challenges and voting posts from now on, huh? Would that be easier?
This photobucket deal is confusing. I already do my icons or bigger graphics in .png. They are coming out blurry? I haven't experienced that, yet. I'll have to check right now.
It sounds like opting out is all you need to do as long as you're the one doing the posting, Nikki. I don't think you need to lock your posts as well. Or does it mean if you just copy and paste the urls for the images to put in your voting table, then it's like the person posted the image themselves? *scratches head*
The way that I understood it is that journal names and communities function the same way in the feed. So if you opt out with your journal, you need to also opt out with your communities as well. Then if anyone posts in that community, it will not appear in the feed.
That also means if you post in a community still on the feed, you are going to want to lock that post (i.e. pimp posts). So I locked my journal, Still Grrr, and some other comms. But if I post to say insertnameheregraphics, I will want to lock my post to protect it from the feed.
I did the opt out for my journal a long time ago already. There was something similar happening back then; I don't remember exactly. Now, I did it for the graphics journal as well. Better to be safe.
And PB? They annoy me already anyway. But this is so not cool. I make my icons in .png anyway. Now that I think about it, I read something recently. Someone said that whenever a .jpg is saved/downloaded it loses quality. I don't know, though, if that's a PB thing or in general. I don't really want to save my wallpapers in .png and my photos are in .jpg anyway. That would be a whole lot of trouble and time to change. Time that I don't want to spend on it.
Hi. I hope I'm not breaking the mysterious rules of LJ etiquette by replying to this five-day-old post.
Nothing loses quality in download, unless you have a stone age ISP which compresses images smaller before sending them to you (usually to make dial-up "faster"). Even then, it's not technically happening in download. If you save a .jpg by just saving the file in your browser or download program, you should get exactly, bit for bit, the file that's on the server.
If you paste a .jpg into an image editor and resave, that applies .jpg's lossy compression to it all over again. The image loses quality each time that's done to it, because each time it starts from what's left of the image after the last time. If Photobucket tampers with the compression, that does the same thing.
So if you keep avoiding photobucket, your .jpgs should be fine as long as you're not planning to edit and resave them later.
Thank you! this is very useful! i have wondered how come i have searched for my username and a lot of my stuff came up. going to opt out of the feed now! <3
as far as the icons/pic becoming blurry - i have not noticed this.. and i always do jpg. i always upload smaller versions of pictures if i do at all. hmm.
As far as I can tell, the blurry thing is relatively new for photobucket. I haven't seen it hit my account yet but I have seen it occur in other accounts.
And honestly, if it wasn't for the stats option of photobucket, I would have no idea my stuff was being hotlinked like that.
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This photobucket deal is confusing. I already do my icons or bigger graphics in .png. They are coming out blurry? I haven't experienced that, yet. I'll have to check right now.
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That also means if you post in a community still on the feed, you are going to want to lock that post (i.e. pimp posts). So I locked my journal, Still Grrr, and some other comms. But if I post to say insertnameheregraphics, I will want to lock my post to protect it from the feed.
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I did the opt out for my journal a long time ago already. There was something similar happening back then; I don't remember exactly. Now, I did it for the graphics journal as well. Better to be safe.
And PB? They annoy me already anyway. But this is so not cool. I make my icons in .png anyway. Now that I think about it, I read something recently. Someone said that whenever a .jpg is saved/downloaded it loses quality. I don't know, though, if that's a PB thing or in general.
I don't really want to save my wallpapers in .png and my photos are in .jpg anyway. That would be a whole lot of trouble and time to change. Time that I don't want to spend on it.
Thanks for the info. :)
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Nothing loses quality in download, unless you have a stone age ISP which compresses images smaller before sending them to you (usually to make dial-up "faster"). Even then, it's not technically happening in download. If you save a .jpg by just saving the file in your browser or download program, you should get exactly, bit for bit, the file that's on the server.
If you paste a .jpg into an image editor and resave, that applies .jpg's lossy compression to it all over again. The image loses quality each time that's done to it, because each time it starts from what's left of the image after the last time. If Photobucket tampers with the compression, that does the same thing.
So if you keep avoiding photobucket, your .jpgs should be fine as long as you're not planning to edit and resave them later.
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as far as the icons/pic becoming blurry - i have not noticed this.. and i always do jpg. i always upload smaller versions of pictures if i do at all. hmm.
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And honestly, if it wasn't for the stats option of photobucket, I would have no idea my stuff was being hotlinked like that.
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