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Old 12-02-2022, 02:44 AM   #843
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
I assume what you're talking about here is where they've taken a small image and tried to blow up to the minimum required by sites like Apple, rather than producing a new original image of the right size and compression. Most of the time I find the opposite, where the covers are high-res and saved at super high quality so the available quality far exceeds anything but the most detailed inspection. And sometimes these resource hogs are sitting on short stories!
No, not upscaling. The issue I'm referring to is when you zoom in, and look at what is supposed to be a section of solid colour, but instead it's all blotchy from the artifacting. It's like they ran the cover through MS Paint at one point.
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