pixelated images

For some reason all of a sudden my laptop is doing a bad job with web images. Mainly just thumbnails and small images, they are all very pixelated. I use chrome, but I've tried explorer and it's the same there.

As far as I know, nothing has been changed..any ideas that might fix this?

Help! I really need help with this! The images look terrible on my laptop and I can't use it to display images. It has to be an issue with my laptop, but I can't figure it out!

I use chrome as default, but it's the same with IE7.

Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!

So you haven't changed the resolution of your desktop? And text and photos look normal? Besides web browsers, other applications continue to look normal? Photos look normal in your image editing application?

Yes to all of that...Images are fine in PS and other viewers, just not on the web. Everything else, documents, etc are fine too. It's just when I go online, all pictures are extremely pixelated.

the only thing I've found is that there is an issue with the DPI on some Dells, which I have..a Latitude E6410...and they are shipped with DPI set at 120, so they recommend you set the DPI to 96, which I did, but it hasn't had any affect yet.

Laptops, especially budget models, should be left at default resolution settings. Try resetting to 120 and reboot.

Or... before you make any changes, check that your web browsers are set to default resolution, text size, scaling, whatever...

Here is a screen capture I took, not sure if this will work...but it's from THIS thread:

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could your browser(s) be zoomed in? I know on occasion, I will go to scroll down a page, and if you depress your ctrl key and scroll, you will zoom in and out. If you are zoomed in, that could do it?

mule wrote in post #11925115
could your browser(s) be zoomed in? I know on occasion, I will go to scroll down a page, and if you depress your ctrl key and scroll, you will zoom in and out. If you are zoomed in, that could do it?

Hmmm....let me check that

Nope, not zoomed. This is REALLY frustrating! Anyone know how to check if the web resolution is set to default? I'm not finding a setting for that in chrome..

Well, I think I found the issue....I started using a Verizon Air Card last week, I just unplugged it and I'm using my home wifi now and the problem is gone. Plugged it back in and the images are pixelated again..

So I guess I won't be able to use the Card when I meet with clients!

Looks like the color depth has been set to 8 instead of 16/32. Also make sure you're running at the native screen resolution - move the slider all the way to the right.

ShotByTom wrote in post #11925320
Well, I think I found the issue....I started using a Verizon Air Card last week, I just unplugged it and I'm using my home wifi now and the problem is gone. Plugged it back in and the images are pixelated again..

So I guess I won't be able to use the Card when I meet with clients!

Sounds like Verison are re-sampling the images to improve load times and minimize traffic on the network.

I would hope you can have this disabled for your account, but you would need to contact them?

Thanks for all of your help! I guess it has to do with a web accelerator that verizon uses with it's air card. They told me I can set it to "load original images" in options, but I haven't found that yet. resolution and color depth were set to the native resolution and 32, but I guess verizon's accelerator does something with the images to speed up load times.

I had an appointment to show senior photos last night and had to use my wife's computer and didn't have access to the internet..