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Susan L. Vasquez
 

Uploading Problem


I've noticed more than once when I upload a photograph here it ends up looking soft and I lose details. They look fine here at home. I'm uploading within the guidelines so I'm not sure what's going on. Any suggestions?


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July 02, 2005

 

Susan L. Vasquez
  Thanks Jill, I'll check out your question too. It's really disappointing losing that clarity. I notice that others don't seem to have this problem, but they also seem to have a better camera. Wonder if that has anything to do with it at all?


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July 03, 2005

 

Diane Dupuis
  I don't know what size you are uploading - but someone suggested making the short side 480 instead of 500 - this is supposed to help.
Good luck!


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July 03, 2005

 

Susan L. Vasquez
  I'll try it right now Diane...thanks :)


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July 03, 2005

 

Susan L. Vasquez
  That did seem better Diane..thanks for the tip.


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July 03, 2005

 

Antony Burch
  Susan, firstly thanks for the comments etc you put in sometimes about my images, regarding the softness you mention, when you resize a jpg and save it like you have to in order to upload, you lose some of the information in the image therefore some of the detail and clarity, I always resize the jpg first then sharpen it a little at its reduced size then save it for upload, this helps to put back a little of the sharpness you lost, give it a try,

tony


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July 04, 2005

 

Susan L. Vasquez
  I actually do that Antony, but for whatever reason when I upload here, a bit of the sharpness goes away. I'm thinking it is because they are resizing the image too. When I tried what Diane was saying, to make the short side smaller it seemed to work.
I'm not sure if I feel like going back and resizing everything (afterall it's not that bad) but in the future I will be sizing as Diane suggested :)


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July 04, 2005

 
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