Some stuff about pix:
- If the subject is simple then convert it to a .gif, especially if it has any text in it - a gif presents text crisply while a jpeg can blur it. With a gif you get a small filesize, it doesn't take up much of your allocation, and it loads fast. If the colors are few and simple, and/or it has some text - then a gif is best.
- If there are any gradient colors (colors that gradually change shade) don't use a gif, use a jpeg.
- If the colors are multiple and complex, use a jpeg.
- Compress the jpeg to below 100kB for most uses, a small pic will be about 40kB. If you try to load a 300kB pic then you are going to have problems most places.
- You don't want to load pix larger than 400px wide or deep here, it probably won't work. Use an image hosting service instead.
- Use tinypic or some other image hosting service, just put the link in your post. No problems then.
You don't say what you are using to create the pix or if you have any control over the filetype or filesize. If you're doing it off a phone then maybe the best option will be to try and find how to resize the image to a small size, and compress the image to a small size. Then load it to Tinypic and post the link.
If you're lucky then the
device will have a menu option: Save For Web. Try that.
One reason you might be getting pixellated images here is you're trying to load a 2,500px wide image of 2 megabytes or something. The forum software will auto-minify that and it may not do a very good job. Much better to do the image resize & compress at your end.
