Images + Backgrounds being served in unusably low quality

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Question:
Is there anyway to turn off the automatic compression on background images? or image assets in general? The results are unusable, with egregious artifacts. I cannot use wix as a host if this is how the site is going to work. I’m uploading ~250kb images and they are being compressed into oblivion.

Product:
Wix Studio Editor

What are you trying to achieve:
I require high quality image assets. I’m already uploading 250kb webp compressed assets which is apparently not enough-since wix is automatically compressing them further and adding many noticeable image artifacts.

What have you already tried:
Original, 5mb pngs look fine the editor, but were turned into unusable assets when published. Even re-encoding them myself to <300kbs does not stop the compression. This has to be a bug because the results are appalling.

Additional information:
original asset

site background when published:

compressed
compressed2543×1407 74 KB

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Use CSS to set the background… You can upload HD images which on compression will give good results.

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Thank you for this suggestion. Using the limited css options available, I was able set the background of my section to a better quality asset using the following code in onready

let backgroundOpts = $w("#section4").background;
	backgroundOpts.src = 'https://static.wixstatic.com/media/uploadstaticurl.webp';
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Hi, @user5473 !!

This topic might be helpful regarding that issue. :thinking: