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[Headstill]

I think I am finally done editing this one. Critique if you wish, I am open for opinions

 

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[Headstill]

Ok, so something isn't right.....The uploaded picture looks nothing like what my final is on my desktop. Any ideas? All I did was save it from TIFF to JPEG and uploaded.

[Merco_61]

What colourspace did you use for the jpg? What size did you reduce it to? What war the compression setting? The forum software sometimes does screwy things to photos that are uploaded as attachments. A safer way is to upload to your gallery space and link to the file. This gives the advantage of a larger preview in the text without clicking the photo.

[Headstill]

Merco_61 thanks for the suggestions. To keep things short, it appears that I uploaded a billboard and I think the site was defaulting. Either way, I have uploaded the photo again in what I thought was a reasonable size, but it still looks like I posted way to big of a file.  However it seems to be the finished product.

 

Can you give me suggestions on ideal file size and format to upload my pictures yet keep the picture looking original (depth/color saturation/sharp)?

 

thanks!

[Merco_61]

I will check exactly what my export action in LR does in a few hours when I get to my own computer. If I remember correctly, I use a bounding box with max size 1200x1000 pixel, 80% jpg quality, sRGB and sharpened for screen use. The resizing, I think,  uses the nearest neighbour algorithm.

[Merco_61]

I misremembered what algorithm LR uses for export. It is an adaptive resizing that uses a combination of both Bicubic algorithms and nearest neighbour to different situations depending on contrast and amount of reduction. It is a further refinement on the Bicubic Automatic in PS and is the default (and only) option in LR. 

[OTRTexan]

I've taken to just linking the image from flikr. Honestly if I want someone to see my images, I want them to be full sized.
Merco, I always value and respect your opinions here, but that last one could of been in Chinese and made as much sense to me lol

[TBonz]

I think I might have applied a square crop to that image, but at a minimum I think I would have cropped the right end off so that the roof / sky weren't visible. I think that at least for me it would highlight the flowers contrasted with the leaves better...nice capture though...

[Merco_61]

OTRTexan, not Chinese but simplified mathematics... There are some ways to combine pixels that are close to another to reduce the size of an image. Lightroom uses a combination of all the three most common. I have been involved in a discussion with an old friend who has studied how to deliver files for print and web in an efficient matter for the last two months, the language tends to spill over to other forums.

[OTRTexan]

Umm, bicubic algorithms does not sound simple to me lol. Which is why I only use the software and not develop it

[Merco_61]

I agree with TBonz that the roof and sky detracts from the image. I wouldn't go for a square crop, though, as I think that the negative space in the lower left corner gives a bit of tension that makes the photo memorable and not just a nice picture of a beautiful flower.