Aperture/MobileMe quality

I recently purchased Aperture and have created 2 MobileMe albums.
The problem I am having is the quality of the MM gallery. The pics look pretty bad. A lot of noise, artifacts, banding in the sky, etc. Also when I click on the photo info button in my gallery, all of the metadata is gone. No camera, no shutter, aperture etc. Another problem is under the file info it says the file size is only 75-145k.
I am not sure what exactly is going on. Is it an Aperture problem, or a MM problem that I can fix. Are there quality settings I can't find? It seems that it is uploading the thumbs only. I am at a loss.
I didn't have these problems with other galleries created in iPhoto 08, but that was done a while ago so I don't know if something changed in MM or what.
Thanks for any suggestions.

TyWahn wrote:
I recently purchased Aperture and have created 2 MobileMe albums.
The problem I am having is the quality of the MM gallery. The pics look pretty bad. A lot of noise, artifacts, banding in the sky, etc. Also when I click on the photo info button in my gallery, all of the metadata is gone. No camera, no shutter, aperture etc. Another problem is under the file info it says the file size is only 75-145k.
I am not sure what exactly is going on. Is it an Aperture problem, or a MM problem that I can fix. Are there quality settings I can't find? It seems that it is uploading the thumbs only. I am at a loss.
I didn't have these problems with other galleries created in iPhoto 08, but that was done a while ago so I don't know if something changed in MM or what.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Aperture and iPhoto compress the JPEGS even further as part of MobileMe integration. In the Gallery it is unavoidable. One way to get around it, you need to publish to Web Pages/Journals at high rez displays and default Preview JPEG settings.
Follow the instructions here:
http://www.apple.com/aperture/tutorials/#publishoutput-webgallery

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