When I installed my new layout, I installed the plugin Imsanity. This plugin would make my pictures smaller without losing any quality. I figured something out and I am not very happy with this. That’s why I immediately deleted this plugin. So, are you resizing your pictures with a plugin?

Resizing your pictures with a plugin

I am a bit of a perfectionist and I notice it directly when something is worse than I made. Because of the plugin Imsanity, the quality of my pictures went down. This wasn’t the meaning of course and especially when I want that my pictures just look good. I was a bit lazy to resize the pictures and I thought that this plugin would do it for me, without I have to pay much effort. Well, this wasn’t the case. It resized the picture in pixels, but the quality went down more than when I just did it myself. Look at the example below.

This is the picture I have uploaded with Imsanity.

This is the picture I resized and uploaded myself.

Some of you won’t see the difference, but I see this clearly. I see that the letters of the upper picture are less clear than the bottom one. The bottom one is more clear.

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The speed of my blog didn’t improve

They believe that the speed of my blog would improve when I would resize the picture with this plugin. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case. I even got a couple of messages that my blog is super slow. After some testing and resizing the pictures, I figured out that these pictures slowed my blog down. This isn’t the meaning of course and that’s why I will resize my pictures with Photoshop. A little effort, because I edit my pictures in Photoshop as well.

Are you resizing your pictures with a plugin and did you hear of this plugin?

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