 Tyler Ovington |
corrupted pixels after resizing for web? Okay I'm not sure if anyone else has this problem. but it's starting to get to me. When I take the full sized finished photograph and resize to 640x480 or vice versa and then save for web in photoshop cs. it saves into gif format. but the finished resized web copy looks very dotty in spots. especially on skin and where parts of the photo is out of focus. Does anyone know why this is and is there anything to do to correct this? btw I use neat image to finish off the photo before I resize. (if that has anything to do with it) thanks
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anonymous |
I haven't had this problem, but I use PS to resize and one thing I have learnt is to not do a huge resize all at once, take it down in a few steps, it heaps a lot.
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Tyler Ovington |
Sorry I found the problem. Saving them to gif format was doing it. instead I started doing jpeg. But thanks for replying to my question. by the way I love your photos. So beautiful and unique. You must have been born with a camera in your hand.
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anonymous |
Thanks Tyler, yep! That is why my mum had a bad labour with me - I came out with a 300mm telephoto as well! Ouch!!! LOL
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John C. Schwentner |
No matter what you do, if you want to keep a pristine original, you should save right off the bat before you touch it in either tiff or raw, these wont compress and degenerate with each save that you do. As you know, each time you resave in jpeg you lose quality
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Tyler Ovington |
I always save in TIFF format :D.
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Michelle Ross |
I wondered if I should be saving out of the camera as TIFF and then going in and doing my edits. . .but how much space does that take up? I usually load the pics to my computer straight from the camera in and "original folder" and then open and work on it from there and save in TIFF? So John you are saying you should open them up and save them to TIFF at the out of camera resolution and size? and then do edits?
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Antony Burch |
Tyler, the reason the gif didnt look to good is that it only supports 256 colours, where as your jpgs should be at least 16 million !
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John C. Schwentner |
Michelle, I say yes, if your camera will let you do that. Mine wont, but I just save immediately in tiff for an original. I dont think it matters either way as long as you tiff it before you mess with it,, but to cover myself I gotta say the sooner you snare the original in tiff the better. And tiff does use more storage space than jpeg, but if you got plenty of hard disk space who cares? Of course it takes longer too, but here again, we want our best not our quickest right?
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Michelle Ross |
Okay Thanks John. > I can't save in my camera.. . and I would have to move them to my computer via USB and then go back in and resave them all as TIFF . . . Then I could go back and delete I guess . . I don't think my hard drive has that much space to do that. . . so I'm actually making my edits on a copy from the memory card as a JPEG. . . after I do my editing I save as a TIFF . . . So in all reality it never SAVED as a JPEG other than in the camera on my memory card and I was always told that copying to hard drive does change the quality? Did I misunderstand that?? I need to start shooting RAW . . . but my brain just doesn't know if it's ready for that learning curve yet. .. I just reinstalled the DiMage viewer so maybe I will try a few with the Senior picture shoot I do this week! Thanks for the help!
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John C. Schwentner |
Michelle, I dont know about your computer picture program. Mine will let me pick what to save in right after it loads intio the comp. Your program should let you do that. If not, you can resave it right away in adobe without editing or anything. just call that shot up hit save as.. and pick tiff. But I think you can just go ahead and edit and then save in tiff. the editing doesnt change the compression, just the save and resave part. I never heard it said that loading into the hard drive will lose anything. I mean, thats the way its done. Im a little confused when you say you have to go back in to resave them. Dont all your pictures get loaded right into the computer from the card?
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Michelle Ross |
Hi John. . .yes I use my card ready and put my memory card in and then my adobe PSelement 3.0 brings up this little downloader thing . . . but since I take the pics in JPeg is doesn't ask me how I want to save it just asks me where I want to save hence they then get transferred as JPEGs to my hard drive. I then open them and begin editing and then save as a TIFF. If I were to save the original JPEG as a TIFF first and then start editing I would have that extra step in there. So I know they don't lose anything going from the card to the computer I just didnt' know how much I lost by working them as a JPEG original and saving as TIFF vs. saving as TIFF working on them and then resaving as a TIFF. I know it's confusing as I have a hard time writing what I mean LOL.
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John C. Schwentner |
I do know exactly what you are trying to say. The way I understand this is that it doesnt matter what format you shoot it in, its the saving that changes things. Therefore it seems to me that after you get it into the computer I think you can edit and save as tiff and should be the same as saving first in tiff Im surprised the ps elements doesnt let you pick the save format, ps does.
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