Quality of imported pictures is poor

[dononelson]

Hi all, I'm a newbie to Web Designer MX premium, and I seem to be having a quality issue when importing a black and white photo into a web page. The photo has a lot of sky with various light and dark areas, but when I add it to a page, the gradients in the sky look horrible - this is the photo: which doesn't look bad here, but on the page, the sky is very pixilated, and the dark and light areas don't blend in at all - almost as if it were an 8-bit image. How do I properly import an image and keep the quality?

Thanks,

Don

[gwpriester]

Welcome to TalkGraphics

Nothing wrong with the photo. Make sure that your Quality setting is set to High Quality or Very High Quality.

[jeb]

Gary, is this the answer to my problem as well (well, one of my problems as well!

When I imported and saves pics from my camera, import into Pro X and then export as a .jpg and attach them to an email, they come out at 76 K. I needed one at 1 MB or larger to send to a publication and had to do so through WD Pro 7.

Tks - jb

[dononelson]

Welcome to TalkGraphics

Nothing wrong with the photo. Make sure that your Quality setting is set to High Quality or Very High Quality.

Yep, quality is set to very high - here is a screen shot of the imported photo from a page preview:



Do you see how the sky has sharp gradients to it? I've imported other (color) photos and I don't see the same problem.

[Luke.Hart]

I don't see the banding you're reporting when I import your initial JPEG file, perhaps if you supply the resultant XAR file it would be possible to further diagnose this issue.

The image is effectively 8-bit since for each pixel the values of each channel is the same (that's what greyscale is).

[pauland]

Good old wikipedia:

"Even with true color, monochromatic images, which are restricted to 256 levels, owing to their single channel, can sometimes still reveal visible banding artifacts."