Hi folks!

I have encountered a problem with my website. I am president of a small local volunteer fire department and I do their website. I use our official parch on all my pages to make that logo more recognizable. For some reason, each time I copy and paste that jpeg file (on each page), the quality deterioates to the point where it really looks like crap. Any thoughts why this does this? I have tried everything I know to maintain the quality. By the way, every other graphic or picture I use works just fine. It's only THIS particular graphic. Yes, I have been deleting the old crappy file before replacing it with a new one.

Bob Coant

have a look and see - you'll see the VVFC patch varies (in quality) from page to page yet it's the very same picture file!

www.volneyvfc.com

Hi Bob,
you need to upload your website again as it is showing only your files,
have you tried using png, or gif's to see if you get the same problem? I don't remember!

Hi Bob,
I think I can shed some light on this one for you.
I noticed that you are NOT using the very same image for each web page. The name of the image is not the same, and the image itself is different. The image names you are using are:

• VVFC%20PATCH_BEST.jpg
• VVFC%20PATCH.jpg
• vvfcpatch_white.jpg
• and I think there is a patch_black.jpg as well

The issue with the "%20" in the name is that you left a space in the name, and the Internet can't read spaces in file names, so it automatically puts %20 to represent the space. You can avoid this by naming images without spaces, or using _ (uderscore) instead of a space.
patch_1 works great,
patch 1 does not because of the space, but this WONT fix the quality....I will explain the quality issue....

The most likely cause for the quality issue is that when you use an image editing tool to re-save an image with a new name, the image editing tool is most likely reducing the file size each time you save. When you choose "save as", look to see if there is an "options" window. Click that and see how much 'compression" there is. Anything less than 100% or "no compression" will end up reducing the image quality and mess up your picture, especially in .jpg format.
Try it with a test image...something that won't matter if it messes up. Look up your "options" when saving the image and I'd bet its set lower than it could be.

I hope that explains.