Re: [android-developers] Promotional Graphic in PNG gets converted to _very lossy_ JPEG in Android Market?

2011-04-06 Thread Marcin Orlowski
On 5 April 2011 22:31, Marc Reichelt mcreich...@googlemail.com wrote: Web Market sucks in many ways, incl. language autodetect w/o no option to override it, said jpegs, promo images being required bigger than used and scalled with browser, not on server side, etc. But despite all this, this is

Re: [android-developers] Promotional Graphic in PNG gets converted to _very lossy_ JPEG in Android Market?

2011-04-06 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Yep. One of my favorites is that it pre-scales those large icon images from 512x512 to 256x256, and then uses the browser to scale them further to 124x124, causing aliasing effects. They could have easily used 128x128 to avoid it. -- Kostya 06.04.2011 18:31, Marcin Orlowski ?: On 5

[android-developers] Promotional Graphic in PNG gets converted to _very lossy_ JPEG in Android Market?

2011-04-05 Thread Marc Reichelt
Hi! I have a problem with the Android Market. I uploaded a promotional graphic (180w x 120h) as PNG. However, the Android Market seems to apply a _very_ lossy JPEG compression on it - it just looks ugly. Here is the image I uploaded to the Android Market: