Forum hosted images: artifacts in Chrome

I'm seeing extremely annoying artifacts in images when using Chrome on Windows, but only from some hosts? Aressem's 2nd image above shows an actual stripe (screen-vertical) through the hand. If I view it in Edge, it renders normally. This always happens with forum-hosted images, and sometimes from other external hosts. SmugMug does not do this though -- If I post an image in POTN from SmugMug, Chrome renders it beautifully.

This image has a vertical stripe artifact going through the hand in Chrome, but looks fine in Microsoft Edge: https://photography-on-the.net …hp?p=17626161&i​=i74358129

Anyone else able to reproduce? Any fixes? It makes some otherwise wonderful photos look horrible.

waterrockets wrote in post #18430871
I'm seeing extremely annoying artifacts in images when using Chrome on Windows, but only from some hosts? Aressem's 2nd image above shows an actual stripe (screen-vertical) through the hand. If I view it in Edge, it renders normally. This always happens with forum-hosted images, and sometimes from other external hosts. SmugMug does not do this though -- If I post an image in POTN from SmugMug, Chrome renders it beautifully.

This image has a vertical stripe artifact going through the hand in Chrome, but looks fine in Microsoft Edge: https://photography-on-the.net …hp?p=17626161&i​=i74358129

Anyone else able to reproduce? Any fixes? It makes some otherwise wonderful photos look horrible.

No it doesn't.

john crossley wrote in post #18430889
No it doesn't.

You're seeing it in Chrome on Windows, and it looks fine?

Here's a screenshot of what I'm seeing. The left is Chrome, and there's a vertical line in the hand (and many other artifacts):

IMAGE LINK: https://photos.smugmug​.com …b70bc/O/post.jp​g&lb=1&s=A

waterrockets wrote in post #18430897
You're seeing it in Chrome on Windows, and it looks fine?

Correct.

Chrome, Version 60.0.3112.101 (Official Build) (64-bit), Windows 10, and it looks fine here.

Interesting. Can you see the difference between the two crops I posted?

I'm not anywhere near my usual 2556x1440 monitor, but on a 1600x1200 monitor on my laptop...

...I see no vertical line, no evidence of 'considerable artifacts'. Both my desktop PC and laptop have Windows 7 (one 64-bit, one 32-bit) and Chrome.

Here is a screen grab of the linked photo which supposedly has the vertical line and other artifacts...

Wilt wrote in post #18430917
I'm not anywhere near my usual 2556x1440 monitor, but on a 1600x1200 monitor on my laptop...

...I see no vertical line, no evidence of 'considerable artifacts'. Both my desktop PC and laptop have Windows 7 (one 64-bit, one 32-bit) and Chrome.

Here is a screen grab of the linked photo which supposedly has the vertical line and other artifacts...

Thanks! I see a clear checkerboard artifact on the meaty part of the palm and wrist in your screen capture. Infant's face texture is horribly muddy. Photobucket must be one of the problem hosts for whatever issue I'm seeing.

Do you see any artifacts in my left screen capture above?

On my laptop computer screen (an 'ancient' IBM Thinkpad T43P with 1600x1200 resolution LCD) I see NO ARTIFACTS at all (neither in the original link nor in your post 3 (left/right comparsion) nor in the screen grab posted by me in post 7)!!!

What are you using for a monitor? what screen resolution, what video signal type?

That is crazy. Every PC I use at work or own at home has this issue in Windows Chrome. I wonder what I'm doing differently. I have my game developer system at work with an GeForce GTX 1050, and I have an old $400 desktop at home with some on-board weak graphics card -- both show same issue.

Hmm.

Wilt wrote in post #18430947
What are you using for a monitor? what screen resolution, what video signal type?

I have two laptops with this issue, on their respective screens, at 1920x1080

I get back to my desktop with 2560 x 1440 displaying Chrome on a Windows 7 machine in a few days, so will Follow this thread and try to remember to look at this thread again when I get back.

Wilt wrote in post #18430977
I get back to my desktop with 2560 x 1440 displaying Chrome on a Windows 7 machine in a few days, so will Follow this thread and try to remember to look at this thread again when I get back.

Thanks! I'm bewildered if I'm the only one!

Wilt wrote in post #18430977
I get back to my desktop with 2560 x 1440 displaying Chrome on a Windows 7 machine in a few days, so will Follow this thread and try to remember to look at this thread again when I get back.

One quick clarification, do you see the artifacts in my left comparison image above?

Once again with emphasis to absolutely make it impossible to misunderstand what I already stated...

I see NO ARTIFACT and NO VERTICAL LINE in ANY image

1. ...neither in the direct link of post 1,
   
2. nor in your left-right comparison screenshot of post 3.