Shoutbox

Photo Sharing is cool and all but the quality is really bad.
I know it's because the photos sent are compressed a lot so they have small sizes but can't the quality be changed?
Maybe a tweak in the register or maybe a script for msn plus?

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Originally posted by XanaRaquel
Maybe a tweak in the register or maybe a script for msn plus?

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No and no.

Also they no longer are called scripts they are once again called plugins. The compression is done, I do believe, by the servers. If you save the file do you get the same quality photo or the original?

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Originally posted by matty
If you save the file do you get the same quality photo or the original?

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Yeah, saving gives you the high-quality version.  Though it takes a lot longer to send...

Thanks for the input.

Yeah, used the wrong word.
And yes, if you download you get the same quality of the original.

I normally use the Photo Sharing for "hey, look at this printscreen" and since the compression is so high some texts are hard to read and the print gains a lot of grain.

But the compression can't be done by the servers. That would mean the original size photo would have to go to the server. And if the client has to send the full size photo for that why not sent it directly to the other client? I think the compression is done by the client and then the compressed version is sent to the other client.

That is why I was asking if it is full quality when save the file.

Can you screenshot what is happening and post it here?

Thanks

What you see in the conversation window when you share photo's are indeed always lower quality versions of the photo than the ones you 'save'. What you see are always down-resized thumbnails.

This is on purpose to save bandwidth and speed. Most people do not need to have the full blown big sizes to simply see a holiday snapshot of a contact (photographs taken with a camera are these days +10MB big and have sizes ranging to 2000 pixels or what not; even too big to show on some screens). And that's the biggest reason why the current system of Photosharing has been created in the first place.

If you would tamper with the compression (eg: you disable it completely) by patching Messenger for example, than it will take as much time to share your photo as it would have when you 'save' it in an unpatched version. There is no way around that.

Another possebility to show your contact the full size version is to not use Photosharing in the first place, but sending the file directly (like you would send another, non-picture, file). But again, that wouldn't be any 'faster' either though, for obvious reasons.