util: Remove the blur to improve compression ratio

Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>

diff --git a/src/backend/util.py b/src/backend/util.py
index 021b139b488bc880e0d38a57152e53ef49081bcf..17b3d3a02b4c51e97908228cbf661ced442b1c85 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/util.py
+++ b/src/backend/util.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import PIL.ExifTags
 import PIL.Image
-import PIL.ImageFilter
 import PIL.ImageOps
 import datetime
 import io
@@ -244,12 +243,6 @@ def generate_thumbnail(image, size, square=False, format=None, quality=None, **a
        else:
                image.thumbnail((size, size), PIL.Image.LANCZOS)
 
-       # Apply a gaussian blur to make compression easier
-       try:
-               image = image.filter(PIL.ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(radius=0.05))
-       except ValueError:
-               pass
-
        # Arguments to optimise the compression
        args.update({
                "subsampling" : "4:2:2",