Unwanted compression of images

  • I am a photographer and image quality is the most important for my portfolio website. Im uploading images to my media gallery, all images are saved to webp format and have around 900kb-1.8mb. After upload to media library dimensions stay 2560 by 1810 pixels but the file size is reduced to 140kb! The quality is very poor. I’m on the WordPress 6.7.1 and using elementor free to design my website. I get rid of image optimiser plug in already, with this images were reduced to 80kb.

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  • WordPress by default compresses images, which might be the reason why your file size is reduced and the quality decreases.

    You can disable the compression feature as follows:

    Edit your theme’s functions.php file and add the following code:

    add_filter('jpeg_quality', function() {
    return 100;
});
add_filter('wp_editor_set_quality', function() {
    return 100;
});

    This will set the quality of JPEG and WebP images to 100 (the highest quality).

    Thread Starter trajdoskatarzyna

    (@trajdoskatarzyna)

    Thank you for your replay, it worked.

    ??????

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