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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
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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I'm a bit confused. You say "not upscaling" but then also "when you zoom in". If you are zooming in only enough to get to 1:1 then sure, I agree that the image should have been created to look clean at that level. But after that you're upscaling with all the inevitable issues.
But that's not something I've ever noticed on covers unless it was undersized and so required upscaling - in which case I'd blame the image size rather than JPEG compression. I do see plenty of undersized covers. If they're JPEG they go blotchy in the solid colours, if they're PNG they just go pixelated, and neither is attractive.
This all makes me think of those TV shows where they're showing surveillance footage and they manage to blow up three pixels into a clear image of a face and then they pick out the reflection of the killer in the person's eye or something.