A favor?

[NetSnake]

Xtreme version

[Elie]

Hehe, I made this pic look a bit on the extreme side...
(I agree, it is a nice photo!)

[degrub]

Get a Spyder screen profiler. Or Monaco EZ color. Neither is very expensive and it will resolve some of you display and editing issues. At least you will be able to be consistent for your editing and can see what a sRGB display will look like.

[NetSnake]

nothing a little tweaking of levels wont fix.... great photo BTW

[az]

Not dark enough, even though I can't discern any details on the first glimpse, it's gray, which makes your picture look a little duller and less "crispy" than it could. Disregard if this is the desired effect.

BTW, even with a bad monitor (what do you have?), you can kind of see how dark something is by using the histogram in your image manipulation software.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

sorry guys heres another

http://www.theshotspot.com/photos/view/15141

at the bottom of the pic is it dark enough, or can you see unwanted stuff?


i really need to get a new monitor or something

[az]

OK, nobody uses TIFF on the web.

[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 ....

[DukeP]

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

Im old.

~~DukeP~~

[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 ?

[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?)

[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.

[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.

[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~~

[Mehen]

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

My thoughts exactly. :/