Help! My jpeg banner for website is blurry no matter what I do

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New to website design, I made a very simple banner for a website and no matter what format I do, its always blurry after I upload it!

It's driving me crazy!

there's got to be a simple way to make the dang picture clear. Please help!!

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What I have tried:

so far after tons of google research I've tried: Photoshop, pdf, tiff, paint, Gimp

Posted 13-Jun-18 8:37am

Member 13871617

Updated 18-Jun-18 8:01am

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ZurdoDev 13-Jun-18 16:28pm

There isn't much we can do to help without seeing what your html code looks like.

Member 13871617 13-Jun-18 16:55pm

The code isnt the problem (). what I am doing is downloading a jpg made in photoshop to a third party image hoster. Its only blurry when i upload it to the site. I'm confused?!

ZurdoDev 13-Jun-18 19:34pm

The code might be the problem. But we can't tell without seeing anything. For example, the image might be 100 x 100 pixels but your html code is setting it to be 63 x 171 or something.

I'm not sure what you want us to do.

Member 13871617 15-Jun-18 13:16pm

I tried serval time to put the code into this question but the site wont let me. ()- should show up as code

ZurdoDev 15-Jun-18 13:21pm

Click on Improve Question and then paste the code and in the pop up choose Code Block.

Member 13871617 15-Jun-18 13:20pm

This site wont allow me to post the code so....????

Dave Kreskowiak 13-Jun-18 20:03pm

What are the dimensions of the image file and what are the dimensions of the image as displayed in the browser?

If you're trying to use an image that's, say 15x15, and you're stretching it out to, say, 150x150, yeah, it's going to be very blurry and there's nothing you can do about that besides replace the image with a higher resolution version.

Member 13871617 15-Jun-18 13:19pm

The website banner needs to be width="920" height="174" the actual jpg i have is 2213 x 519 pixels. but the thing is that when I look at the high resolution jpg its fine. Very clear even when zoomed in on but when I put it on the site to those measurements its blurry.

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2018-06-15T07:25:00

Solution 1

Based on your comment, your ratio is way off. You can take a 200 x 100 image and put it into a 100 x 50 slot because the ratio is still the same so it will look good.

But taking a 2213 x 519 (4.26 ratio) and stretching it to 920 x 174 (5.29 ratio) clearly is going to make the image blurry.

Posted 15-Jun-18 7:25am

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Member 13871617 15-Jun-18 15:33pm

Okay that makes sense. So if the measurements are w 920 x h 174 than what is the max ratio that my image can be? And how can I cut that 4.26 ratio down on the image i already have?

ZurdoDev 15-Jun-18 15:36pm

The ratios need to match. So, you need to decide which to change your banner size on the website or have the image resized and redone.

Member 13871617 18-Jun-18 12:52pm

Well I cant change the website site since everything else fits into those border dimensions. So Can i just enlarge the banner I made? I need more of a walk through as I'm so brand new to this.

ZurdoDev 18-Jun-18 13:07pm

Your website is stuck at 920 pixels by 174 pixels. Grab a calculator and divide 920 by 174 and you get about 5.29 ratio. So, you need an image with the same ratio, doesn't matter how big or small. The easiest thing to do probably is to redo the image.