Tile Slideshow 2 Widget - Pictures Become Blurry When Previewing / Publishing

[dutchim]

This is the website I added the slideshow to:

www.starclassics.com

Perhaps it happened because I removed the box and text at the bottom?

I'm stumped... And lost!

Thanks

[gwpriester]

The decals and gasket images certainly are not sharp. I really have no idea why. Maybe one of the members who know how these things work will have a better idea.

[dutchim]

They are all blurry but some images hide it better I guess?

Thank you kindly for checking Sir.

[Acorn]

dutchim, the widget is set up for 600x400px images.
If you are putting hires images in it, they are being scaled down.

What you need to do is resize the widget page background to your required size and move the bottom text line and background box to fit again at the bottom.

Also check each image still has the Name WTag:scaled:image.

Acorn

[dutchim]

Thank you for your reply Acorn...

I will take a look at it this evening!

Will report back

[Acorn]

I've been experimenting.

I changed the Widget page size to XGA (960x640px) and replaced the default images with Stock Photos.
These work out at 192dpi vs 60dpi for any scaled original.

I then selected an image and in the Names dialog, I changed WTag:scaled:image to WTag:scaled(600):image.

This was an experiment that worked for me.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

What does the (600) do Acorn?

A thought I had last night and I think you have suggested is to scale the widget, note the new size of the images, and create new images to that size at 96 or 192px.

[gwpriester]

When I scaled the widget to 960 eidth, then created new photos at 192dpi to the new size, the Name info shows WTag:scaled(600):image automatically. It is all very odd.

Also look in the Bitmap Gallery. There are two sets of images, for retina hi res and normal I assume. And then two new sets of images for the scaled images.

I think extra compression is being added which is degrading the image sharpness.