Colour of images using tiled galleries

Hi there,

Photon images go through a lossless image compression algorithm that should not change the quality of the images. That said, we have seen cases where our algorithm did not handle custom color profiles on images very well.

It looks like you’ve changed the image on that post, and if I now look at the original link vs the Photon link I don’t see any difference:

https://i1.wp.com/www.facesplacesandplates.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SON5023_1024x1024-1.jpg

https://www.facesplacesandplates.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SON5023_1024x1024-1.jpg

Do you still see a difference?

Great thanks.
I think that I know what’s going on.
I installed the Enable media replace plugin to allow images to be replaced instead of adding more and more images to the library.
I suspect that once an image is replaced, the original one on Jetpack’s server isn’t updated.
I found out I also couldn’t use “my eyes are up here” plugin.

I wish that there was an option to use the Jetpack Tiled Gallery without using all of your fancy image stuff.

I tried the Tiled gallery plugin without jetpack, but it did some weird things with photo resizing.

Ugh, I think I hit reply too soon.

I just doubled checked that site and I’m not using the enabled media replace plugin.

So I’m not sure what’s happening.

I think that my client changed the photo after I posted that comment.

Hopefully this was just a glitch.

Thanks for your help.

I found out I also couldn’t use “my eyes are up here” plugin.

With Photon you lose any custom cropping you may have done, as Photon handles the cropping itself from the original image. So that plugin won’t work with Photon, no.

I wish that there was an option to use the Jetpack Tiled Gallery without using all of your fancy image stuff.

Unfortunately that is not really something we can do. As you’ve probably noticed when using the “Tiled Gallery Carousel Without JetPack” plugin, if you don’t use Photon then you need to load every gallery image using the full, non-resized, image, and then handle the resizing with CSS. That’s really not great for performance, and pretty bad when said gallery has to be loaded on a phone with a limited data plan for example.

I think that my client changed the photo after I posted that comment.

That sounds most likely, yes. If you notice this type of desaturation again, tough, please let us know so we can take a look.