You may be mistaking ppi (pixels per inch) for overall resolution (pixel dimensions). If your images were made at 300ppi, but were only 200 pixels wide, and you brought them into a regular graphic box larger than 200 px width, you would see enlarged (invented) pixels, and resulting loss of quality.
If your images are pre-compressed and sized in another application, then using the HTML box to position them (or checking the Pass-through option in the File / Import dialog when populating a graphics box, which accomplishes the exact same thing) is the correct thing to do. Pass-through images cannot be resized or cropped or altered in any way, so if you have already taken those steps, then using pass-through gives you the assurance that your hard work won’t be stepped on by a system designed to deal with non-Web graphics.
A regular Freeway graphic box is always going to compress the content you place in it, and may also change the output format (if your image wasn’t JPEG to begin with). While all of these options are configurable, Freeway’s default is to set a graphic box containing a full-color image (so, not a GIF) to JPEG, 75% quality, 72ppi. If you check High Resolution to enable “Retina” images, then this changes to JPEG, 30% quality, 144.ppi. Click once on an image box and look in the Output tab of the Inspector to see and adjust these preferences for that image, or in the Document Setup dialog to change any new images you add after making a change (existing images are never altered by the document setup).
These defaults and conventions are based around the understanding that many designers will keep their images in their original non-compressed format, at very high resolution. If you use the regular graphics box as a sketching tool, and then finesse the final images later using Photoshop or another professional image preparation tool, you will have the speed benefit of being able to re-crop and size an image to suit your design or your client’s whims, and then only have to break out the big and heavy finishing tools once, after approval.
Walter
On Feb 15, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Monique Rebelle email@hidden wrote:
I changed the image container from graphic to HTML and the quality is fine! Very happy! I did not have to sit with this for too long, but I had no idea before that the graphic tool would not work for images!
http://www.imagixi.com
http://www.moniquerebelle.com
http://www.moniquerebellephotography.com
http://www.imagicall.com
On Feb 14, 2016, at 8:34 PM, Monique Rebelle email@hidden wrote:
For some reason the quality of the thumbnails is unacceptable. The large size painting is Ok, but not really good. I have tried with different sizes of images, different resolutions, nothing helps. I had the same problem with Freeway Express. Somebody mentioned something about “pass through" images, or something like that. What do I need to do to have a good quality images? They all look good on my FW page but horrible on the browser (Safari)
http://www.moniquerebelle.com/paintings.html http://www.moniquerebelle.com/paintings.html
http://www.moniquerebelle.com/83.html
http://www.imagixi.com
http://www.moniquerebelle.com
http://www.moniquerebellephotography.com
http://www.imagicall.com
On Feb 14, 2016, at 7:15 PM, Monique Rebelle email@hidden wrote:
Thanks Dave. I tried the way you suggest already as well and after receiveing your email I tried it again with File> Import. Exactly the same effect. Not good. http://www.moniquerebelle.com/paintings.html http://www.moniquerebelle.com/paintings.html
I took the image in 300dpi and File>Imported it, tehn shrunk it (just like the other ones, 50% as it never does it by itself , which is what I understood from the info High-Resolution websites in Freeway - Freeway - Softpress Talk https://www.softpress.com/kb/questions/447/High-Resolution+websites+in+Freeway)
Nothing changed. Same awful quality on the browser and uploaded. Looks good on the Freeway page as I am working on it.
http://www.moniquerebelle.com/paintings.html
This was the reason why I upgraded to Freway Pro, to make sure I get good quality images. Need to fix this somehow…
http://www.imagixi.com
http://www.moniquerebelle.com
http://www.moniquerebellephotography.com
http://www.imagicall.com
On Feb 14, 2016, at 6:05 PM, DeltaDave email@hidden wrote:
What is the problem?
If you want quality images then never drag and drop.
Select the container (graphic or html) and File > Import
D
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