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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1723668, member: 26030&quot;]Here is a good example of a &quot;remade&quot; Large sized TrueView image from the MAX sized master image and how it compares with the heavily compressed Large sized version in the PCGS database.</p><p><br /></p><p>The top photo is my remade version using the MAX sized TrueView and saving it as a JPG file using very high quality settings (90% quality, only 10% compression)</p><p>The bottom photo is the Large sized photo that resides in the TrueView database, which had VERY AGRESSIVE (low quality) compression applied to it by PCGS.</p><p>See the difference in the sharpness?&nbsp;&nbsp; Note especially the beard hairs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom Large sized image in the TrueView database almost looks a bit blurry or out of focus (that aggressive lossy compression really smears things out).</p><p>Honestly I have tried to tell PCGS about this shortcoming in their procedure, but this kind of stuff falls on deaf ears.&nbsp; I even started a thread about this some time ago over on the CU board -- to no avail.</p><p>With the advent of cheaper and cheaper disk drives, there is no reason for PCGS to so aggressively compress images (and reduce the quality) to save disk space.</p><p>Thankfully they do store the master 5757 width image, called &quot;Max&quot;, (in it&#039;s full unadulterated glory) on their servers as well, so you can make your own &quot;higher quality&quot; web optimized (1100 x 550) &quot;Large&quot; sized TV&#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>You will need to click on these and look at them at their native 1100 x 550 pixel size to really see what I am talking about. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/TVWhite_1914MPL.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://images.pcgs.com/TrueView/06619596_Large.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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