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Pools now can be downloaded in PNG of JPEG format. If there is no PNG's in a pool, only JPEG can be downloaded. This makes such a difference in cases like pool #579
Petopeto knows more about this.
Pngs are compressed probably at the highest quality of jpegs (that means no visible quality difference)
And pngs above 3500px is resized at 3500px. Since the original print resolution of doujinshis are 3541px, almost scans sized higher resolution than their prints will be resized.
I didn't post about it yet because it's not ready to be announced (images are still being created and not all UI is there yet)...
The "low quality" pool download link has been replaced. Before, it would download the sample images for posts--what you see by default when you view a post, which is a small low-resolution JPEG intended only intended for quick online browser viewing. That wasn't very useful, since it was too low-quality, and I don't like how it encouraged distributing low-quality images--we should be trying to set a decent standard.

It's been replaced with a high-quality JPEG download link. These images are always JPEG, and the resolution is capped around 3500px.

These will be made available from post pages at some point (still working on the UI).

more details
I may remove the parent-pooling feature. It was intended to allow things like "edited" versions of pools (crops, etc.) to make it easy to download the original versions, but it's too goofy. There's a lot of overlap between books where this doesn't make sense, with different versions of the same image in different books which should be parented but not affect pools.

It's fairly rare that this is actually needed (and it's not the easiest feature to understand, either); I think it'd be better to just create a second pool the rare times it's actually wanted.
Thank you for the download jpeg and download png change. I think it is awesome! I like to have pngs for when I want to do some graphic design, but otherwise a very high quality jpeg works okay for me for collection purposes. (I can always come back and get a png later if I need it anyways).

Very cool! :)
I've added a HQ JPEG version link to the post page. The button that shows the HQ version in the browser now goes to this version if it exists, too.
petopeto said:
I've added a HQ JPEG version link to the post page. The button that shows the HQ version in the browser now goes to this version if it exists, too.
The JPEG option is a great idea. I often resave huge PNGs because I just can't tell the difference and want the smaller file.

Can I ask approx. what compression ratio the HQ JPEG option is using? Say, for example, the equivalent of an 11 or 12 setting in Photoshop (which is what it looks like to me).
It's between 11 and 12.

More precisely: it tries a very high ratio, 97%, and then it steps it down until the file size is under 4 megs (but never goes under 94%). This way, cleanly processed files (which will compress well) are given high-quality compression, but noisier ones (which won't compress as well) are slightly lower to give them a reasonable file size.

The files are also resized to a max of 3500x3500.
petopeto said:

The files are also resized to a max of 3500x3500.
This is very good to know too. I'll have to keep an eye out for the bigger ones. Thanks for explaining the details.
petopeto said:
I've added a HQ JPEG version link to the post page. The button that shows the HQ version in the browser now goes to this version if it exists, too.
Peto, you rock.
When I click 'View larger version' it doesn't behave like it did with the old 'resize image' - It doesn't resize within the same screen. It's a direct link to the image and I lose all the moe menu bars on the left and top of the screen.

Would it also be better to highlight the .PNG versions over the .JPGs ?

Also can't seem to resize post #130847 - Have to right-click and open in new tab to get the correct dimensions.

EDIT - I've found a few posts I've had to right-click and open on a new tab to get the larger size.

EDIT2 - It seems I can get around it by unticking resize images in 'My settings' but this means I lose my usual preview.
You've got:

'View larger version'
'Download larger version (x KB JPG)'
'Download PNG (x MB)

Might want to make it a bit clearer as to what link does what.

post #130881 shows:

'image'
'image (509 KB JPG)
Erh... no chance for you to configure the thumbnail pages so you can download the PNG from there?

Until now I noticed this change :(

EDIT: Oh wait... some pictures have the PNG option, while others don't. How is this determined?
Some pictures were originally on PNG file.
Others were saved on JPEG.
I believe this is why there are pictures with only JPEG working.
I see.

Is there a chance to directly get PNG in the thumbnails page, if available, instead of the toned down JPEG?

At least you could add a little mark that indicates the picture was originally uploaded as PNG.
kyoushiro said:
Is there a chance to directly get PNG in the thumbnails page, if available, instead of the toned down JPEG?

At least you could add a little mark that indicates the picture was originally uploaded as PNG.
Well, I suppose it'll stop the leeching bots from using up so much bandwidth for a while.

Original images are stored at http://[server].imouto.org/image/[md5]/moe [id] [tags].png or .jpg.
PNG -> JPEG images are at http://[server].imouto.org/jpeg/[png's md5]/moe [id] [tags].jpg .
I'm sure you could whip up a Greasemonkey script something that'll change the dl links for you.
That's too complicated for me. Anything related to scripts = confusing.

I guess I'll go the old school way and check pics individually.
About Radioactive's problem:

If you selected both "Resize images" and "Show Image Samples", although you can't resize the sample image as before, you can use "View Larger Version" instead - it's much bigger than sample and has no resizing.

But - if you just selected the option "resize image" but not "Show Image Samples", you'll catch the problem like Radioactive -you can only get a resized one, if you try to click 'View larger version', it will do nothing.
Eh... I haven't moved anything in my configuration, if that's what you're trying to tell me.
what happens with big jpg files ?
It appears that if there is a PNG version available that will be the default image displayed now.
Yeah it does and good enough for me. I can save it just by right-clicking and saving the original png size easily.
I liked to see the whole image on my screen, and then zoom in. That is why I used 'resize image' but not 'show image samples'
Ugh, can you add an option back in to always link the HQ PNGs if available from "star symbol" on the Index (i.e. http://moe.imouto.org/post ), tag, and pool pages?

This is really going to be a pain in the ass to be forced to go through hundreds of images one by one to find the HQ PNG links...

Around 99% of the time I would mass-download all of the recent HQ PNGs (or highest quality available) from various tag pages daily, this change will make finding the HQ PNGs a very painstaking and time-consuming process.

Please, Please, Please, change it back or add some sort of option to ALWAYS show the HQ PNGs (when available) on the Index and Tag pages.
Wrote a simple greasemonkey script that did what Aurelia said. The site works just like it used to.
vita said:
Wrote a simple greasemonkey script that did what Aurelia said. The site works just like it used to.
Could you please post or PM me that greasemonkey script. I have absolutely zero knowledge about how to code anything in javascript myself.
Cyberbeing said:
Could you please post or PM me that greasemonkey script. I have absolutely zero knowledge about how to code anything in javascript myself.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Moe Imouto
// @namespace none
// @description Bla
// ==/UserScript==

var allLinks, thisLink;
allLinks = document.evaluate( '//a[@href]', document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
for (var i = 0; i < allLinks.snapshotLength; i++)
{ thisLink = allLinks.snapshotItem(i);
if ((thisLink.href).match(/.*org\/jpeg.*/i)){
thisLink.href = (thisLink.href).replace(/jpeg/, 'image');
thisLink.href = (thisLink.href).replace(/\.jpg/, '\.png');
}

}
Not sure if this has been pointed out yet or not, but when there is both a jpeg and a png version and the file size is over 3500 pixels the index shows the dimensions of the resized jpeg version, not the dimensions of the source image.