diff --git a/web/src/lib/components/AdaptiveImage.svelte b/web/src/lib/components/AdaptiveImage.svelte
index 39bc4516b7..4f3522887c 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/components/AdaptiveImage.svelte
+++ b/web/src/lib/components/AdaptiveImage.svelte
@@ -1,3 +1,54 @@
+<script module lang="ts">
+  import { TUNABLES } from '$lib/utils/tunables';
+
+  // Chrome renders HDR images with normally invisible seam lines in a regular
+  // grid pattern. When the user pinch/scroll zooms, these seams become visible
+  // and grow more prominent at higher zoom levels.
+  //
+  // Adding `will-change: transform` prevents the seams by converting the
+  // element into a GPU texture that Chrome rasterizes once and reuses. But
+  // this texture is frozen at a fixed resolution and never re-renders from
+  // the source image, so zooming in magnifies the frozen texture rather than
+  // the source, which can appear blurry.
+  //
+  // To keep the texture sharp, we size this div closer to the image's native
+  // dimensions and apply a CSS counter-scale. Chrome renders these textures
+  // as a grid of small tiles backed by a shared GPU memory budget — if the
+  // texture is too large, tiles go missing and show up as transparent gaps.
+  // We cap the texture size based on the device's GPU capability.
+  //
+  // This workaround is only needed in Chromium-based browsers. Firefox and
+  // Safari use different rasterization pipelines and don't exhibit this bug.
+  // See https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40084005
+  const isChromium = 'chrome' in globalThis;
+
+  function getMaxRasterPixels() {
+    const override = TUNABLES.IMAGE_RASTER.MAX_PIXELS;
+    if (override > 0) {
+      return override;
+    }
+    if (override < 0 || !isChromium) {
+      return 0;
+    }
+    try {
+      const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
+      const gl = canvas.getContext('webgl');
+      const maxTextureSize = gl?.getParameter(gl.MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE) ?? 0;
+      if (maxTextureSize >= 16_384) {
+        return 16_000_000;
+      }
+      if (maxTextureSize >= 8192) {
+        return 10_000_000;
+      }
+      return 4_000_000;
+    } catch {
+      return 4_000_000;
+    }
+  }
+
+  const maxRasterPixels = getMaxRasterPixels();
+</script>
+
 <script lang="ts">
   import AlphaBackground from '$lib/components/AlphaBackground.svelte';
   import BrokenAsset from '$lib/components/assets/BrokenAsset.svelte';
@@ -98,14 +149,27 @@
     return { width: 1, height: 1 };
   });
 
-  const { width, height, insetInlineStart, top } = $derived.by(() => {
+  const { insetInlineStart, top, rasterWidth, rasterHeight, rasterScale } = $derived.by(() => {
     const scaleFn = objectFit === 'cover' ? scaleToCover : scaleToFit;
     const { width, height } = scaleFn(imageDimensions, container);
+    if (maxRasterPixels === 0) {
+      return {
+        insetInlineStart: (container.width - width) / 2 + 'px',
+        top: (container.height - height) / 2 + 'px',
+        rasterWidth: width + 'px',
+        rasterHeight: height + 'px',
+        rasterScale: 1,
+      };
+    }
+    const nativeRatio = imageDimensions.width / width;
+    const budgetRatio = Math.sqrt(maxRasterPixels / Math.max(width * height, 1));
+    const rasterRatio = Math.max(1, Math.min(nativeRatio, budgetRatio));
     return {
-      width: width + 'px',
-      height: height + 'px',
       insetInlineStart: (container.width - width) / 2 + 'px',
       top: (container.height - height) / 2 + 'px',
+      rasterWidth: width * rasterRatio + 'px',
+      rasterHeight: height * rasterRatio + 'px',
+      rasterScale: 1 / rasterRatio,
     };
   });
 
@@ -152,11 +216,14 @@
   {@render backdrop?.()}
 
   <div
-    class="pointer-events-none absolute inset-0"
+    class="pointer-events-none absolute"
     style:inset-inline-start={insetInlineStart}
     style:top
-    style:width
-    style:height
+    style:width={rasterWidth}
+    style:height={rasterHeight}
+    style:transform="scale({rasterScale})"
+    style:transform-origin="0 0"
+    style:will-change={maxRasterPixels > 0 ? 'transform' : undefined}
   >
     {#if show.alphaBackground}
       <AlphaBackground />
@@ -174,8 +241,8 @@
     {#if show.thumbnail}
       <ImageLayer
         {adaptiveImageLoader}
-        {width}
-        {height}
+        width={rasterWidth}
+        height={rasterHeight}
         quality="thumbnail"
         src={status.urls.thumbnail}
         alt=""
@@ -192,8 +259,8 @@
       <ImageLayer
         {adaptiveImageLoader}
         {alt}
-        {width}
-        {height}
+        width={rasterWidth}
+        height={rasterHeight}
         {overlays}
         quality="preview"
         src={status.urls.preview}
@@ -205,8 +272,8 @@
       <ImageLayer
         {adaptiveImageLoader}
         {alt}
-        {width}
-        {height}
+        width={rasterWidth}
+        height={rasterHeight}
         {overlays}
         quality="original"
         src={status.urls.original}
diff --git a/web/src/lib/utils/tunables.ts b/web/src/lib/utils/tunables.ts
index c586e11957..0d885ec4e8 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/utils/tunables.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/utils/tunables.ts
@@ -31,4 +31,7 @@ export const TUNABLES = {
   IMAGE_THUMBNAIL: {
     THUMBHASH_FADE_DURATION: getNumber(storage.getItem('THUMBHASH_FADE_DURATION'), 100),
   },
+  IMAGE_RASTER: {
+    MAX_PIXELS: getNumber(storage.getItem('IMAGE_RASTER.MAX_PIXELS'), 0),
+  },
 };