If you are using the America Online built-in browser, you may be seeing distorted photo images. It depends on how you have your preferences set. AOL's browser has a default option to over compress the graphics at AOL before they transmit them to you. When the AOL caching system detects that an object is an image, it sends the image through a compression manager on the AOL system network before caching it.
Compression makes images smaller for faster retrieval from the cache to members.
Members can individually disable AOL graphics compression , but most choose to allow compression because it speeds up web page delivery. Below is an example of how the AOL browser's default preferences can make images look terrible. If both images look the same, your preferences setting will not give you a clear view of the photographs on this site. Instructions for changing your preferences are shown below . The image to the right is rendered with AOL compression turned on .