Hi Apple Community
I'm using iMessage for yahoo chat, and i have problems with the profil picture.
All my contacts complained it was blurry/pixelated, i tried taking a photo with the webcam, and quality improves a little, but its still blurry.
I want to use a professionel photographer picture taking of me for business purpose.
How can I make sure the picture quality is sharp?
All the best
Kasper
MacBook Air, iOS 9.1
Hi,
The Messages app takes a Picture and manipulates it for the Buddy List.
It takes whatever size the original pic is and creates a thumbnail about 72 pixels square. (in reality only a few kbs of data)
This is then sent to the relevant Server (AIM, Jabber or Yahoo) and then it is sent to your Buddies.
With Yahoo you can add yourself to the Buddy List so you can see what the pic looks like.
Incoming pics are stored in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Messages/Pictures
Even the Apple default ones get reduced in Quality.
However the result can vary depending which Service the thumbnail is going through
The "Front" one here is from the same Buddy as the next to the right and despite the second being larger the quality is different.
I would check the Yahoo site and see what size of pic they suggest is used to start with.
Using this in Messages will reduce the number of compressions it goes through.
9:26 pm Thursday; November 26, 2015
Yahoo on imessage profil picture blurry
