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I did the same, and it took me a long time to spot it, but in the upper-right corner you see circles in the WebP version. It's outside the centre of attention,
by arp242 3y ago
I did the same, and it took me a long time to spot it, but in the upper-right corner you see circles in the WebP version. It's outside the centre of attention, so it's not that obvious. Actually, it wasn't until I saw the second picture and knew what to look for that I spotted this in the first picture.
It's not so easy to see if the browser zooms the image, so make sure to open the image and set zoom to 100%. I also need to keep my face fairly close to my screen (12" 1920×1080, so not that large).
- Beijinger 3y agoI always zoom in on pictures on the web to see if the compression is good or if there are artifacts.
- arp242 3y agoI agree, it's not a good example to lead with. That said, in the context of showing off your photography I can understand considering these kind of artifacts undesirable, even though they're perfectly fine for a lot of other uses. On my own website I spent quite some time downgrading my mugshot to be as small as possible without too many artifacts – it's now 4.9K in WebP, vs. 9.2K in JPEG before. Maybe that was a tad obsessive though... I do think the author doesn't quite appreciate that most people are not photographers, and that for most images quality doesn't actually matter all that much.