 Collette Photography |
How do you keep photos sharp while uploading? When uploading photos on here, or anywhere else, my images lose a substantial amount of sharpness. How do you keep that from happening? I upload my images as tiff. files, rather than jpg. to try and keep the sharpness, but it doesn't seem to help any. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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"When uploading photos on here, or anywhere else, my images lose a substantial amount of sharpness. How do you keep that from happening?" You don't, Collette. Uploading photos to online servers requires space on those servers' harddisks (especially if they're TIFF's!). Which equals money. So they conserve space by converting your picture to a smaller size, or a lower quality/higher compression. Or both. I.o.w. don't store your originals online!
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Collette Photography |
Thanks, I guess I will just have to deal with it! =) One more question, I have to upload my files to an online printer to get them printed. So I convert them to jpg.'s before uploading to the site, otherwise if I upload them as tiff.'s it will literally take hours sometimes days for them to upload. Thanks again for any help with this! =) ~Collette~
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To get max quality you obviously need to print the uncompressed TIFF file(s) rather than JPGsJPGs (which are after all compressed images), Collette. JPGs are, after all, compressed images. So you need 1) to get those big TIFFs to that printer, and 2) make sure that printer can actually handle files of those sizes. @ 1) you can't do that via eMail. Too big. Try http://www.yousendit.com/ to get those big TIFFs to that printer. To protect your images in transit you can zip 'm (together into an 'archive') with a password! Obviously the speed/capacity of your connection is all-important!
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