Forum Forum reducing image quality. Help?
 

I've just installed my forum, and I'm having one really annoying issue...

Any image used on the forum, like uploaded avatars, avatars via URL, and images used in posts are being reduced in quality.

I tried resolving the issue with the avatars, by increasing permissions. But they still had the problem. The forum is brand new, WHY is it on a default setting to reduce images used on the forum? It's really annoying me, and I can't seem to find a resolution.

Just as a brief example, here's an image before, and after posted on my forum.

Before.


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