I upload my photos both here and on flickr, and I'm seeing a lack of clarity on images uploaded on here compared with flickr. Colour is fine as I convert all photos to sRGB, but I can definitely see a reduction in image quality, mainly a blurred effect. Is there a compression method taking place within the 365 upload process? Does anyone else who uploads to multiple sites notice this?
interesting
i haven't really noticed this but now i'm going to do some comparisons to my flickr account....
maybe it has to do with site bandwidth??
hopefully ross can have some insight into this...
i'll send him a message!
It seems there is some sort of compression on 365, not as bad as photobucket but not as great as flickr either.
I have started sizing my images down to 1000px wide in Photoshop so that 365 has less resizing to do, I would rather a full program make my photos smaller then the avg web browser. Even still I do notice a difference between flickr and here but like I said its been better since I started sizing my photos myself.
I can't find it now but there was another thread where Ross also mentioned checking your save settings... most of it was true and it could be your problem but it still doesn't explain why the photos look better on other sites if uploading to other sites.
I normally find a difference when I'm looking at photos from PC to MAC...I find my photos looks a lot darker on a MAC for some reason (or maybe it's just my brain trying to play tricks on me)
Haven't really noticed too much of a difference between flickr and 365 though. I'll have to start looking
Haven't noticed any difference. I do, however, notice a huge difference when uploading to Facebook - that site makes photos look considerably lower quality.
Whatever you upload gets resized by the 365project's web server, not your browser, and resized to be 550px along the longest side. So, if you'd rather photardshop do your resizing and make sure nothing's lost, resize them to that manually.
Then just hope that the 365 coder doesn't resize if it's already at the right dimensions ;)
Photo Quality?? I think there is a whole lot more to a (quality photo) than sharpness. Yes there are some things we want to be tack sharp, but in general isn't it our attempt to portray something of beauty or interest as we see it. And do it because we know others can't see the same because they cannot be there at the moment. It is a wonderful thing to be able to do this and share with others. Other aspects of quality--composistion, lighting, drawn to point of interest, balance, showing something in a way that now one else has seen it
also, even the name of the photo has a lot to do with it. There is on the discussion a topic (feeling inferior) the person that started should in no way feel inferior her shots are great, a reflection of what she see's.
Richard your 100% correct there are many things that go into making a great photo but when you expect something to look a certain way and it turns out different, in a way your vision has been changed.
I know when I color correct my images I spend time to make sure certain things are right, its kind of a heart breaker when all that work is undone in seconds. There are ways around that and I now take those extra steps to help.
Photos are stored at 100% quality, obviously the resizing of the photos produces compression and we compensate for that by sharpening the image, Flickr takes the same approach but they sharpen a lot more. We could increase the level of sharpness but personally i think it's about righ and that flickr over-sharpens.
I've noticed this on some of my photos, so I started resizing them. Maybe I should stop sharpening my photos when I export as well (I also sharpen in LR...I double sharpen).
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i haven't really noticed this but now i'm going to do some comparisons to my flickr account....
maybe it has to do with site bandwidth??
hopefully ross can have some insight into this...
i'll send him a message!
I have started sizing my images down to 1000px wide in Photoshop so that 365 has less resizing to do, I would rather a full program make my photos smaller then the avg web browser. Even still I do notice a difference between flickr and here but like I said its been better since I started sizing my photos myself.
I can't find it now but there was another thread where Ross also mentioned checking your save settings... most of it was true and it could be your problem but it still doesn't explain why the photos look better on other sites if uploading to other sites.
I might start putting a link to the flickr version in the notes though.
I'm finding myself REALLY wanting to check out the finer details in other people's work, but you just can't get there at 365 size.
I thought they where notorious for that..
Haven't really noticed too much of a difference between flickr and 365 though. I'll have to start looking
Then just hope that the 365 coder doesn't resize if it's already at the right dimensions ;)
also, even the name of the photo has a lot to do with it. There is on the discussion a topic (feeling inferior) the person that started should in no way feel inferior her shots are great, a reflection of what she see's.
I know when I color correct my images I spend time to make sure certain things are right, its kind of a heart breaker when all that work is undone in seconds. There are ways around that and I now take those extra steps to help.
Photos are stored at 100% quality, obviously the resizing of the photos produces compression and we compensate for that by sharpening the image, Flickr takes the same approach but they sharpen a lot more. We could increase the level of sharpness but personally i think it's about righ and that flickr over-sharpens.
Ross