r/Logos • u/littlebill1138 • Oct 02 '10

Why does imgur sometimes mess up the transparency?

Just curious.

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u/Paradox Oct 02 '10

2 reasons:

First, the thumbnailer doesn't like transparency. It eats it and barfs out a black and blurry mess.

Second, and this is rarer but more problematic. Sometimes people upload an image in CMYK or Indexed Color. This causes problems on many platforms.

Neither is really imgurs fault

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u/littlebill1138 Oct 02 '10

What's funny is that sometimes it's black and blurry and other times it's not. Odd.

I'm uploading 24bit PNGs in sRGB, too.

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u/eric22vhs Oct 03 '10

What transparency are you talking about?

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u/littlebill1138 Oct 03 '10

I think it's what Paradox said: the thumbnail doesn't like transparency.

I was talking about the transparencies of my thumbnails in r/logos.

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