Graphics problem. Help please

[xsunnysuex]

Suddenly my laptop has started distorting my pictures. I thought at first it was just facebook. But it's doing the same when I attach images into email. Any ideas please?
You can see the difference I'm talking about here. Left is one in paint shop pro. Right one I attached to an email.

 

[neonwilderness]

It looks like the one on the right has been saved at quite a low quality setting, so there’s pixelation and a loss of colour.

It’s been a long time since I’ve used paint shop pro, but there should be a way to increase the quality of the jpg when you save it.

 

[platinumsage]

Looks like the number of colours has been reduced to 256 i.e. it's a gif.

 

[Supine]

Yeah, what format is the picture in the email?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Some e-mail packages ask if you want to reduce image size for e-mailing, and there's one forum i'm on (not here) that shrinks photos if i try to attach them to a post and there's nothing you can do about it. I don't know about farcebook as i don't do it.

Don't think it's anything to do with the graphics card / screen on your laptop if they look OK in PSP

Also, PSP can be set to reduce size / resolution when it saves jpg files. There is a way of telling it not to do this, but it's a while since I've used PSP and can't remember how. It will be an 'option' setting somewhere.

 

[xsunnysuex]

I saved it the same as I always do. And I've used paint shop for years. So I'm totally confused.
The email one is the same as the left one. It's just been attached to an email.

 

[xsunnysuex]

I've uninstalled and reinstalled paint shop. Fingers crossed it fixed it. Thanks for the help.