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Dennis Bailey
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quotePosted at 02:09 on 28th January 2011

When i post pictures i convert them from Nikon's raw format to JPG format using Nikon capture and then use Photoshop CS5 to reduce the photo to POE specs and upload. The originals are pin sharp, but those i uploaded have gone soft. What am i doing wrong?

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Gemm Ferrane
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quotePosted at 10:03 on 3rd February 2011
Due to the loss of quality when you use JPEG compression, the images can look softer. Resizing (e.g. to 800px) can make it look soft too, so always apply some sharpening after resizing. Hope this helps.
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Stuart Harling
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quotePosted at 14:39 on 3rd July 2011
On 28th January 2011 02:09, Dennis Bailey wrote:

When i post pictures i convert them from Nikon's raw format to JPG format using Nikon capture and then use Photoshop CS5 to reduce the photo to POE specs and upload. The originals are pin sharp, but those i uploaded have gone soft. What am i doing wrong?


Hi Dennis

Try using "save as for web and devices" in CS5, make sure you use S/RGB colour space and use bicubic sharper when resizing down. That should do the trick.

cheers

Stuart
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quote | editPosted at 15:58 on 3rd July 2011
There is a very simple answer to this.  I have photos on a few web sites and the display quality varies a lot.  POE does not seem to give the sharpness of other sites and clearly gives less contrast.  I know nothing about servers so no idea if its due to bandwidth or what.  Perhaps the "management" may explain it all.  Mr B ?
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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 16:29 on 3rd July 2011
Have passed it to 'Management' Mick (not me though) for comment in due course.
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quote | editPosted at 16:38 on 3rd July 2011
Thanks Ron.  I could be wrong but I do find a difference between sites.
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Dennis Bailey
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quotePosted at 01:53 on 4th July 2011
Thanks everyone for the help
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Paul Hilton
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quotePosted at 06:22 on 4th July 2011

Here's a method that might help too Dennis, for sharpening-----

 After converted to Jpeg, and Duplicating it( Ctrl +J)  re-size the longest side to 1800 pixels.  Then Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen. Then repeat Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen.

If 2nd round of Sharpening has been a bit too much already, go to Edit>Fade Sharpen and reduce the Opacity to something more suitable.  

Back to Image>Image Size to re-size to say 900/800 pixels (or whatever) for the web. If it might need a touch more,  then Filter> Smart Sharpen and More Accurate box ticked and Pixels set to  .2 or .3  and Amount to around 50%---or whatever less to avoid over-sharpening/halos appearing.

You should have a sharp looking web image by now. 



Edited by: Paul Hilton at:4th July 2011 07:57
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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 08:03 on 4th July 2011
Thank you for that advice Paul.
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Karen Lee
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quotePosted at 13:09 on 19th January 2012

Suppose this is really a question for Ron - I have been having quite a few problems with the laptop, closing down mid use and jumping sites from history...anyway, on Sunday/Monday I uploaded some pictures and they were in My Pictures waiting, I checked on them on Tuesday evening and they had disapeared off the site completely, pannicked slightly, shut down computer and checked again and they were back, did the same yesterday and again they had gone, just checked again and they are back...What on earth is happening?     Bit concerned that we may have a virus of some sort, can you see them from your end, that's all I really want to know, because if not, i'll try it again- or run another virus scan

Sorry it's such a lengthy question, but a bit worried incase we have a big problem.

Thankyou

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