Sunday, November 18, 2012 Fuzzy Blog Photos? Here's A Simple Explanation Quite some time ago, I don't remember exactly when, I noticed that the photos in my blog were looking a bit 'fuzzy'.  When I clicked on a photo to see it enlarged at 1600 x 1200 it always showed crystal clear.  I just wrote it off to Blogger's JPEG compression algorithm and made a mental note to check into it further one day.  That day was yesterday and I came to a surprisingly simple conclusion. Image 1:  Using 'CTRL +' to re-size window to fill 22" monitor The 'fuzzy' photo problem wasn't due to Blogger's compression, my camera, Picasa re-sizing or any other complicated technical reason.  It is simply a case of me telling my browser to display the photo at a much larger size than the actual photo.  I did this by using the 'CTRL +' keys to make my blog fill up my widescreen 22" monitor.  Doing this causes a 'fuzziness' problem with images on all blogs I read. Image 2:  Reducing the display to make image closer to actual size The reason is pretty simple.  First, most of my images are inserted into my blog with a standard width of 420 pixels.  The default screen resolution of my 22" monitor is 1920 pixel width.  So, when I use the 'CTRL +' keys to make my blog appear larger on my screen, I'm also, in effect, resizing my photos from their original 420 pixel width to well