User blog comment:Ieatrice/New Image Galleries Available in Labs/@comment-3544775-20141018011439/@comment-3544775-20141018100710

Hedgeg: It's thumbs, the quality should be good. And from the example images I gave, it's seen that the old view have better quality thumbs, because the new style creates a thumb of 240x240 (I think) and then upscale or downscale it depending on your resolutions. So I'm seeing upscaled images, which obviously are with lower quality (everyone knows that if you upscale it becomes lower quality).

Didn't understood if you are asking me or stating something. If you are saying that the 2 example images I gave, and from there the 2nd with new style looks better using max space, then I have to disagree. First it's squares that crop out part of the images, 2nd it's way too big, with low quality thumbs and taking too much space.

I gave example with Captain America, because in the blog post there was example with him. Here is the link: http://marvel.wikia.com/Steven_Rogers_%28Earth-616%29/Gallery and with new style: http://marvel.wikia.com/Captain_America_%28Steven_Rogers%29/Gallery?gallery=new

I already gave example as of what I see:
 * the way I see old gallery: http://www.imagebam.com/image/e48e7a358483229
 * the way I see new gallery: http://www.imagebam.com/image/d104b6358483245

It's obvious that the new gallery takes more space to show same amount of images. And the old gallery have square orientation option too. So here is comparison of the old gallery with squares:
 * old gallery squares: http://www.imagebam.com/image/2c2ee7358544951

Old gallery squares looks better than new gallery. Takes less space and more images per line. Here is a question: considering there is option to show square orientation and not original shape, why do majority of the galleries use original orientation and not squares? Why does staff forces squares, when most people using galleries don't use squares right now. Like 452 said, you have to click and see what you are missing with square images. Some images have more height than width, being cropped as square will leave ~half of the image not seen and for example, if you look for full body shots of some character, you have to open every image to see if it's full body shot or his legs are cut. If you showcase a wide image with ~10 characters next to each other, the square will show only those in the center, cutting out the rest, so you are forced to click and see the rest. The new gallery simply makes you "work" more, until you see the image you want. You gave to click over and over again the "show more", then you have to click to see the full image and what you are missing.

Here are more examples of what I'm complaining with square images:
 * with old gallery: http://www.imagebam.com/image/ce525f358547427
 * with new gallery: http://www.imagebam.com/image/e714d5358547439

Notice how the first images that are full body shots and have bigger height than width, end up being head shots on the new gallery. Or how "Meliodas' Sword" end up being a hand with the end of the handle? So yeah, original shape is better, since it gives you the better idea of what the image looks and takes less space (meaning less scrolling).

edit: Just noticed this. Apparently when there are 2 or 3 images in the gallery only, it creates even bigger thumbs.
 * 600x600 low quality thumbs!: http://www.imagebam.com/image/8c5d3c358550052

Almost my entire screen is covered by only 2 "thumbs"...