Stop Wasting Space - Stop Upscaling Uploaded Images

AFNNetworkK12

BlueStarPort wrote:
AFNNetworkK12 wrote:
BlueStarPort wrote:
bump (it's on 2nd page)
* every 24 hours please *
It can be bumped if it's on the 2nd page.

Still, give more people a chance.

Botcho_Otkho

AFNNetworkK12 wrote:
BlueStarPort wrote:
AFNNetworkK12 wrote:
BlueStarPort wrote:
bump (it's on 2nd page)
* every 24 hours please *
It can be bumped if it's on the 2nd page.
Still, give more people a chance.

But it's not against the rules, you can bump anytime you want as long as the topic is not on the first page.

Minescratcher367

Flowermanvista wrote:
Scratch had nearest-neighbor upscaled every single image by 200%, and then resaved them as jpg, incurring quality loss.

Support. It's kind of annoying when you're making a tutorial with screenshots, and then when you upload the screenshots, everything becomes really pixely and sort of hard to see.

Flowermanvista

bump

Flowermanvista

bumping again because GlitchjangoBB didn't bump it the first time

miniepicness

I found a way to still upload good images to scratch.
Edit the project save file on your PC, replace the terrible image with the right one, upload to website.

Flowermanvista

miniepicness wrote:
I found a way to still upload good images to scratch.
Edit the project save file on your PC, replace the terrible image with the right one, upload to website.

After a quick test, I found out that this is possible and it does work, but this extremely time consuming procedure shouldn't be necessary in the first place. In addition, the replaced image was off center and had to be displayed at 200% size using the size block. This demonstrates that Scratch's handling of raster images is boneheaded and redundant - scale up the images, taking up more space than needed, and incurring quality loss in the case of JPGs, only to display them at 50%, canceling out the upscaling and defeating its purpose in the first place.

Jonathan50

Flowermanvista wrote:
After a quick test, I found out that this is possible and it does work, but this extremely time consuming procedure shouldn't be necessary in the first place. In addition, the replaced image was off center and had to be displayed at 200% size using the size block. This demonstrates that Scratch's handling of raster images is boneheaded and redundant - scale up the images, taking up more space than needed, and incurring quality loss in the case of JPGs, only to display them at 50%, canceling out the upscaling and defeating its purpose in the first place.

This is true, however, in both Scratch 2 and 3 if you import a large raster image or make one in the paint editor, it will be displayed at four times the stage's resolution. In Scratch 3 the Scratch Team decided to scale all images, saying “Then storage will not need to keep track of bitmapResolution anymore in scratch 3” (see here), but that seems like a poor reason to me.

Flowermanvista

bump

Flowermanvista

bump

Flowermanvista

bump

Flowermanvista

bump

BlueStarPort

bump (2nd page)

Flowermanvista

^^^^

Ian-Stewart

Good idea, they should also let you select the picture quality by yourself.

Minescratcher367

Minescratcher367 wrote:
Flowermanvista wrote:
Scratch had nearest-neighbor upscaled every single image by 200%, and then resaved them as jpg, incurring quality loss.

Support. It's kind of annoying when you're making a tutorial with screenshots, and then when you upload the screenshots, everything becomes really pixely and sort of hard to see.

Luvexina

I support! This will also increase quality of bitmap images.

Flowermanvista

bump

DaEpikDude

bump

Hi_I_am_Alex

Botcho_Otkho wrote:
AFNNetworkK12 wrote:
BlueStarPort wrote:
AFNNetworkK12 wrote:
BlueStarPort wrote:
bump (it's on 2nd page)
* every 24 hours please *
It can be bumped if it's on the 2nd page.
Still, give more people a chance.
But it's not against the rules, you can bump anytime you want as long as the topic is not on the first page.

It's good etiquette to wait 24 hours to bump, as Network has said, in order to give other people a chance to have their posts seen. So please, only bump it every 24 hours.

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