A favor?

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Will someone take a look at this and tell me if there ok?

this one is a panoramic but it looks fuzzy or blurry on there website.. is that whats showing up? it looks clear as day on my computer until i look at it on the shot website.

http://www.theshotspot.com/photos/view/14006

and on this next one i think my monitor is a lot darker than other peoples, i've tried turning the brightness up on mine but its at full capacity. so anyway does that one have enough contrast?

http://www.theshotspot.com/photos/view/14084

[DukeP]

I projected the last picture at my ceiling and played that we had lost our roof and second floor.

It looked very convincing - we made love under the clouded moon.

~~DukeP~~

[Marshmallowman]

The first one does look blurry , looks like compression artifacts(blockies)
(cool photo btw)

The second ones brightness is about right but it may lack a little contrast, it kinda looks ok on an LCD monitor , but if drag it to CRT it looks washed out.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

The first one does look blurry , looks like compression artifacts(blockies)
(cool photo btw)

The second ones brightness is about right but it may lack a little contrast, it kinda looks ok on an LCD monitor , but if drag it to CRT it looks washed out.

For the first one, you think if i make the photo as small as it would fit in that screen it wouldnt be blurry?


more contrast, alright thank you my predictions were right then!

[Lizzard[MPE]]

I projected the last picture at my ceiling and played that we had lost our roof and second floor.

It looked very convincing - we made love under the clouded moon.

~~DukeP~~

umm glad i could help. haha

[Marshmallowman]

I think the site is probably recompressing to save bandwidth, I am not sure resizing will help

[Mehen]

I think the site is probably recompressing to save bandwidth, I am not sure resizing will help

My thoughts exactly. :/

[DukeP]

If posting on a site that's using recompression, always try to use .tif if possible.

I have tried teaching my girlfriend, that .jpg is bad and that it should only be used as a print button. NOT a save button.

Double compression 4tw.

~~DukeP~~

[az]

To avoid blurriness, save in lossless formats as long as possible (png, not tiff. Nobody uses that anymore), and work as large as possible as long as you can. Then, before uploading, resample to the exact size the site will use, then sharpen a little. Then save either in png if the site accepts that and recompresses anyway, or in the best possible jpg quality that still fits in their size restrictions.

To preserve colors when saving as jpg, save with "4:4:4", not "4:2:2" or "4:2:0" chroma downsampling or subsampling, if your program lets you choose that. This will also get rid of the strange artifacts you get if you have full red, blue or green text or non-rightangle lines in pictures. This increases filesize considerably, so you'll have to try and see for each image if it's worth it. It generally is if you want to preserve hard color contrasts. It does nothing for black and white images or luminance (brightness) contrast edges.

[az]

Oh, and the site doesn't work that well in Opera.

This is meant as a hint, not to offend you: If you want to do photography etc. professionally, get to learn the theory behind it, from how CCD sensors work to what image manipulation parameter does what, to how the typical image file types differ. Wikipedia is a good start.

[Elie]

I agree with Marshmallowman, the first image looks soft the second could use some contrast.

here is the same sky picture with some added contrast, ok a bit exaggerated, but looks cool (I think?)

[degrub]

Have a look at the two articles on contrast manipulation - near the bottom of the page #6 & 7

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/

Either method may help you with the moon image.

Have you tried saving the shots in RAW format and working with them ?

[DukeP]

...save in lossless formats as long as possible (png, not tiff. Nobody uses that anymore)...

Im old.

~~DukeP~~

[Rakido]

Im old.

~~DukeP~~

no you're not .. ok maybe

No one uses png if you're into professional printing of images as png does not support cmyk ....

[az]

OK, nobody uses TIFF on the web.