Pics taken with camera appear blurry when I use them as my display picture on BBM

Originally Posted by Obi_El

Nope, your picture is fine, I don't see it there

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Sorry I took so long.. trying another experiment.

I grab this cool high rez wallpaper off a website:

Attachment 186235

Then I took a screen grab of it on my z10 .. and here's the file:

Attachment 186236

I've copied both files over to my computer and reviewed the image quality. Other than the original high rez file had a square aspect ratio, and of course when I screen capture it I will get a loss of resolution due to trying to fit a square into a rectangle.. I see no loss of quality from the screen grab. What do you think?

ASIDE: I'm gonna try to screen capture one with the same aspect ratio right now..

Alright, I think this is a better example. Same Aspect ratios 768 x1280:

Original Picture:

Attachment 186237

Screengrab:

Attachment 186238

I can't tell a difference

Now if you're not experiencing this with your z10 the questions is why?

Originally Posted by Amy wineBerry

I understand exactly what you're talking about, Obi_El. I always wonder the same thing regarding the degradation of quality of any pic I use as my display avatar.

I wonder if the better overall quality of the pic leads to less blurrinessm...



When you wife has it set as her display avatar and you go to click on her display avatar, do you notice any change in the picture quality? The change is only visible when the pic is placed as the avatar.


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I'll have to check it on my wife's z10 when I get home... basically the image I produced was going into her bbm profile on my z10 and clicking on her avatar picture, then bbm allows me to save on my z10.. so as you can see the rez is high quality.

I'll keep the thread posted when I get my hands on her phone

So at least here's the particular's of my z10

Model: STL100-3 (on Rogers)
OS: 10.1.0.273
OS Version 10.1.0.1720

The BBM version I have is the latest BETA offering Blackberry channels (can't remember what version the latest one is)

Hey Obi! I wanted to see what the fuss was about. I always try and replicate. I wanted to know how you go about changing your display pic. I have a Q10 but I tried and I used a pic I took of a toy monkey (what? It's cute) and it gave me options to crop so I did a little and it came out perfectly as my display pic. It reduced in quality somewhat but it does that to look decent in its tiny format and also not be a burden on data when you or your friends change theirs. If it is a very detailed photo it may end up looking horrible as a display pic.

Original
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Cropped display pic blown up
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I dunno. It looks fuzzy but it doesn't matter as most people will view a tiny version of it anyway. But I totally understand. If you put up like a vaca pic and you want your bbm peeps to see it then it kind of hinders it. Ok take care.

Originally Posted by lynxs_claw

Sorry I took so long.. trying another experiment.

I grab this cool high rez wallpaper off a website:

Attachment 186235

Then I took a screen grab of it on my z10 .. and here's the file:

Attachment 186236

I've copied both files over to my computer and reviewed the image quality. Other than the original high rez file had a square aspect ratio, and of course when I screen capture it I will get a loss of resolution due to trying to fit a square into a rectangle.. I see no loss of quality from the screen grab. What do you think?

ASIDE: I'm gonna try to screen capture one with the same aspect ratio right now..

No you aren't getting me, use the high resolution wallpaper as your avatar picture on BBM and see if the overall quality of the picture drops, it does for me, gets all blurry.

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Originally Posted by eddy_berry

I dunno. It looks fuzzy but it doesn't matter as most people will view a tiny version of it anyway. But I totally understand. If you put up like a vaca pic and you want your bbm peeps to see it then it kind of hinders it. Ok take care.

Good point.. even though the z10 takes a high rez picture, if you end up cropping a small portion of the image, if you happen to blow it up full size on the screen it'll be low rez. very good point eddy_berry.

Therefore, take a closer image so the display image cropped with be at a high resolution and it should look better. I'm sure that's what my wife did.

Originally Posted by Amy wineBerry

I understand exactly what you're talking about, Obi_El. I always wonder the same thing regarding the degradation of quality of any pic I use as my display avatar.

I wonder if the better overall quality of the pic leads to less blurriness.


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Yeah probably, or maybe BBM can't handle higher quality pictures so it just reduces the quality of the pic to what suits it.


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eddy_berry oh okay I understand what you are saying, yeah it's clearer on smaller screens I checked on my friends Bold and my display picture was clear, but on my Z10 it's a bit blurry, I guess on other Z10's it will probably look the same as it does on mine. Thanks for the heads up though

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Yeah, confirmed on my z10.. picture taken of a picture on my z10 vs. my display bbm picture. The result is less resolution and the compression shows a slightly softer image of the original:

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I have this problem. I think BB10 devices see your display pic normally but legacy devices see them blurry

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Like I said: down scaled to support BlackBerry Device Software 5.0 devices. BlackBerry 8520 had 320x240 screen resolution, it can't handle 500x500 image (which I assume is the resolution your BBM is trying to display)

Basically, cropped-downscaled-upscaled again.

Original pic:

Attachment 186883

Original pic, screenshot:

Attachment 186881

BBM display picture screen:

Attachment 186882

STL 100-1 10.1.0.273

Originally Posted by Raestloz

Like I said: down scaled to support BlackBerry Device Software 5.0 devices. BlackBerry 8520 had 320x240 screen resolution, it can't handle 500x500 image (which I assume is the resolution your BBM is trying to display)

Basically, cropped-downscaled-upscaled again.

Original pic:

Attachment 186883

Original pic, screenshot:

Attachment 186881

BBM display picture screen:

Attachment 186882

STL 100-1 10.1.0.273

Oh okay, I see that now. Thanks.

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I've got the same problem, wtih my q 10. Normal foto blurr as we put it on our bbm pp

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Originally Posted by Estelle van Dyk

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Thanks to BlackBerry OS 10.2.0.1047 leak, the Contact Photo issue has been solved beatifully. The display images are now crispy.

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This is sooooo annoying!!!! The down scaling should go, we want high rez DPs

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Any way around this then. Its really bugging me..

apparently there's a fix in 10.2

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I have 10.2 installed. And it's still blurry as he'll :(

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Try to re-set your picture.

That is, assign a picture again.

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My BBM display picture is still blurry. Am I missing something? Is there a fix for this?

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I don't have this resolution problem with WhatsApp or LINE. Why is this a problem with BBM? Just wondering...

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Has anyone noticed an improvement since BBM10.3? Or for iPhone + Andorid users at least?

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