On 2014-02-28 8:53 AM, Usman Ehtesham wrote: > When images are uploaded in Pinterest and Instagram, the size of the images > get modified and so do the colors (within a ranges of +/- 10 pixels). Are > images modified to align the images as a grid as seen in Pinterest and > Instagram? If yes, how do they do it done? Also is there a way when the > images are downloaded from these websites, we can get the original image with > the original colors and size? I also observed that when the alpha value of > the image is changed and then the image is uploaded, the images modify the > alpha values too once they are uploaded in Pinterest and Instagram. Is there > a way around it?
I don't know much about the details, but generally sites like this reprocess images after upload. They generally optimize for size and compression efficiency. I suppose they might tweak the colour as well. I don't use either pinterest or instagram, but looking at their developer APIs they provide a few encoded sizes, but no link to the original or Creative Commons licensing tags. In general they're trying to make the images look nice and load quickly; these sites are not about backing up work or sharing high-quality originals for collaborate reprocessing. There are other sites which do allow access to the originals, like Flickr.com. Hope that helps, -r _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
