 Harold F. Bonacquist |
Muddy Images on My Deluxe Website I just purchased a Deluxe website, and many of my pix look bad -- color off, not sharp, etc. Others look just the way they do in Photoshop. What can I do to correct this? And what can I do in the future to avoid it? Thanks,
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Kerry Drager |
Hi Harold, Congratulations on getting a Deluxe Site! Sorry, though, that you've experienced uploading problems. Hopefully, some of the following suggestions may help! Kerry Image Uploading Tips - For Web use, try sharpening your photo a little more than you would for printing. - Your goal is to get your image to be about 500 pixels in the short dimension. An ideal size would be something like 500 x 750 at 72 ppi. - Regarding size, some BetterPhoto members have had success in resizing the shortest side to 480 instead. - Make sure you are not comparing an image in your scanning or image-editing software to an image in a Web browser. That is like comparing apples to oranges. If you really want to know what the Web site is receiving, after you are done reworking your photo, drag and drop the file into a Web browser (or open the image from the browser's File menu). You may be surprised at what you see, especially if you are uploading images at 150-200 ppi(dpi). They will look a lot bigger. If this happens, just resize the images dimensions AND resolution to get it looking right. - While you work on an image, save it in a non-compressing file format such as TIFF or PSD. Before upload, save your file as either a non-compressing file format (TIFF, PING) or as a JPEG. If you choose to use a JPEG, be sure to save it at the highest quality / lowest compression setting. This may be 100%, the number 10 or the number 12. Anything above 8 (or 80%) will be acceptable. - Are you uploading them as 16-bit images? Instead, send as 8-bit images.
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Joe Jarosz |
Hi Harold and Kerry, A few more thoughts, things that I came across in the last few days. Change your color space to sRGB before you upload. It manages color better when using web browsers. Also I've found that in addition to a little more sharpening, I also add some extra saturation, when uploading the images turn out a little flat so I bump up the saturation a little more than usual. One last thing to reinforce what Kerry has said..Upload as a TIFF. BetterPhoto does make some minor changes to your image when you upload (adds borders, resizes sometimes based on where it's displayed) in addition it converts everything to jpeg. So using TIFF it makes changes to a lossless format so that minimizes any change of quality change when you upload. Check out this article, it has some great information. http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles1002/mh1002-1.html
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Kerry Drager |
Hi Joe, Thanks for jumping in here and adding some valuable tips ... much appreciated!! Kerry
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Harold F. Bonacquist |
So I should resize before I upload? I seem to recall reading somewhere on the site that BetterPhoto would resize for me. I haven't resized any of my photos. Would this have caused the problem? And thanks for the suggestions!
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Joe Jarosz |
Hi Harold, If you use the multiple image uploader, you do not have to resize, if you use the single image uploader, you do..I've done it both ways, but personally I have defaulted to resize all the time before I upload, only because that is part of my workflow and I'm more comfortable controlling the resize so I know what the end result will be. Joe
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Harold F. Bonacquist |
Yep, making those changes did the trick! Thanks, everyone for your help.
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Kerry Drager |
Hi Harold, Great to hear it's working for you!!! And thanks again, Joe! Kerry
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