The following is the letter I received from Photobucket. I hope you don't fall asleep reading it. My question to them was "Why are my pictures fuzzy"
Dear wardner@peoplepc.com,
To clarify, compression on our site is a general feature that we use for web display images on our site in order to balance the cost of bandwidth and storage ("optimization") while providing various features and overall site performance for our users. By "web display" is meant the album display or linkable images on Photobucket.com. File-size and Resolution limits are determined by your upload settings parameters.
For details on Upload Options, please refer to our Online Help Topic here:
After our site runs compression for web-display (linkable) images, you may notice loss of quality in some images, especially smaller files with text superimposed over the original image. Some contributing factors to quality loss however, may also be due to how the original image was created or captured, any editing software or applications used to enhance, edit, or update the image, and any superimposed or composite elements added to the image during any editing of the original (e.g. text). Please note also, that with a Pro membership, the original of every image you upload, ie. the 'high res' version - should always be available for retrieval via download button.
To help mitigate the effects of compression on the web display/linkable version of your images, especially if they are small, edited via 3rd party software, and/or have text super-imposed over them is to use your upload settings as 'ceiling/floor' parameters for the compression engine.
This means for example, if you have an original image that is 140 x 120 resolution, then the best upload setting that will keep compression at a minimum for that image or any images falling within that range would be this one: Small ( 160 x 120 ). A slightly smaller resolution setting may also help in scenarios like these also.
With this setting, the compression process will only have so much 'room' within which to optimize for storage space/bandwidth.
Any setting (whether resolution of file-size) in effect, gives the compression engine "room" within which to work with in it's algorithm-based attempts to optimize.
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