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Images looking very different - Mac vs Windows laptop

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January 12, 2017
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Hi all,

I've put this discussion here because the problem lies with content that is coming out of Illustrator.

I make an image for web, and pop it in an email on the Mac for approval from the powers that be and it looks ENTIRELY different to when I sent the image from my laptop. It's bigger, and fuzzy and looks horrendous. even when i scale it down to the size it should be it doesn't look clear enough.

Does anyone else have this problem? Have you found a solution?

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curtcarto

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If you're sending the Mac version via the Mac Mail application, you can change the "Image Size" of any attached image.

Small

Medium

Large,

or...

Actual Size.

Any image placed within Signature, also gets affected by this Image Size Option.

Example (attached): Same photo in the Signature as placed manually.

Notice the Image Size option at the top right.

When it's on Small, the placed inline image gets 'shrunk' down visually, as well as file size. But the signature file is still the same visual, on screen size, but the quality/file size is reduced, thus the blurriness.

It's probably a matter of exporting at the right DPI and pixel size. But what the 'standard' email width is, I don't know.

Mike_Gondek10189183

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Atleast double the resolution (72 dpi to 300 dpi is what many use) of your signature, then use html or your email editor to scale.

You can also look as using .svg as an option, but need to redesign within .svg limitations.

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josiec33201268Author

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The problem with making the DPI higher is that the image size becomes bigger. I'm already at over 100kb with this one.

I've been scaling to 200% then scaling back down in the email, that seems to be working OK but it's not really a viable solution, it's a bit of a hack job!

I think i'm going to have to look into doing this via script, however this is a financial company so everything is on lock down - won't be fun!

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2-Di-4

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On the Mac is the image embedding in the email? If it is, try making it an attachment so the email program isn't interpreting the image. We run into that when sending art for approval from art dept (Macs) to sales (PCs). We have to make sure the image is an attachment and not "in" the email body.

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josiec33201268Author

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unfortunately it's an email signature so it needs to be in the body of the email.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

You mean you export an image from Illustrator and then send this image via e-mail and then the image looks wrong.

Besides what has already been mentioned:

email software might interpret images differently.

might or might not use color management

might or might not discard color profiles

do you receive both images on the same device? in case the image is received on a mobile device, some compression might again happen.

Eternal Warrior

Inspiring

Could be a whole host of things.... Screen resolutions and display settings spring immediately to mind not to mention how various monitors interpret colours.

Can you attach a screen shot of what it looks like when wrong and what it should look like?

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josiec33201268Author

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top: Mac, bottom: Laptop. It's not showing the size difference but the Mac one comes out double the size.

So if I send this straight from my Mac to a recipient, it sends as a bad quality image - it needs to be embedded as this is an email signature.

If I send it from the Mac to my laptop and then send it on to a recipient - it's fine!

Any ideas? I'm losing confidence in my ability as a designer..

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

Yes when you look at the same image magnified looks fuzzy. Sort of like looking at the edge of a razor under a microscope, it is all rough looking.

What are the monitor resolutions of both devices? You may need to choose a resolution on the mac which has more pixels.

for example

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