tl;dr: left-click the image in the image gallery to download the full resolution uploaded.

I have only noticed one instance of this happening, but just to make it clear for all visitors, you can actually left-click each image in the gallery to download the full resolution uploaded, which is generally around 1024 pixels on the long end and of higher quality, rather than the 800 pixel , lower quality image as cached by the app I am using.

Why so much trouble?

Well, I didn’t write the app is of course the first reason. But more importantly, I think it’s about server efficiency and page flow. The cached images are resized to fit the “image view” web page so when viewing, the page it self looks well contained and doesn’t look like the image is overflowing the page layout. Secondly, cached images generate less load on the server because those images are already processed and ready to go. This translates to faster page load when viewing my gallery.

As a matter of fact, I believe there are ways I can make it so you see the full resolution, high quality image right when you click the image, but that would require me to increase the frame by modding the CSS files and tweak the app even more to serve that purpose. More convenient? Definitely. But more work on my part, so unless the demand arises, I am sure you can live with 1 more click to get the better quality picture.

Yeah…I am lazy.