any ideas why this is doing this?

[jann1033]

in the raw photo, the bridge cables are perfect, as soon as i make it jpg, they ( i guess the term is) pixelate(?) i have tried coverting ( opening the raw image again each time)with the sharpening off, lowering the contrast, doing it auto and default,removing jpg artifices and everytime the cables mess up...so any ideas?

only thing i did here was convert to jpg with the following settings
in my converter : default: contrast +25, brightness +50, exposure-.45 when i try auto it's ( all +)exposure 1.05, black 5, brightness 45, contrast 47 . in both settings luminance, color, sharpening, vibrance, saturation, fill light and recovery are all 0...i though it might be oversharping and so set that all at 0 but it still is doing it when i try to open the raw image
Thanks

ok now i am totally confused cause it looks ok here but the same photo copy in the editor and on photobucket is totally messed up?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[SharonLowe]

in the raw photo, the bridge cables are perfect, as soon as i make it jpg, they ( i guess the term is) pixelate(?) i have tried coverting ( opening the raw image again each time)with the sharpening off, lowering the contrast, doing it auto and default,removing jpg artifices and everytime the cables mess up...so any ideas?

only thing i did here was convert to jpg with the following settings
in my converter : default: contrast +25, brightness +50, exposure-.45 when i try auto it's ( all +)exposure 1.05, black 5, brightness 45, contrast 47 . in both settings luminance, color, sharpening, vibrance, saturation, fill light and recovery are all 0...i though it might be oversharping and so set that all at 0 but it still is doing it when i try to open the raw image
Thanks

ok now i am totally confused cause it looks ok here but the same photo copy in the editor and on photobucket is totally messed up?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Can't really tell unless you send a 100 percent crop of the area that is the problem. It could be fringing around the cables but it could also be how/what size you are viewing. Look at the raw and jpeg files zoomed in at 100 percent and see if the problem exists on either of them. If on both, probably fringing which you can fix either with the raw converter or in PS.

 

[ukcatfan]

Have you tried using a TIFF instead of JPG to see if it is the JPG compression causing it? It could have something to do with sharpening as well. You might try processing with zero sharpening.

Kevin

 

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ok now i am totally confused cause it looks ok here but the same photo copy in the editor and on photobucket is totally messed up???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????

When I read this it clicked what you were talking about.

Looks something like this I assume?

When viewing an image in an editor zoomed to less than 100%, it is using the fastest available method to resize the image to display on the screen called "nearest neighbor" where it basically just removes pixels without doing any interpolation. For instance, if you are zoomed out to 66%, it is basically just removing 1 out of every 3 pixels in a row of pixels. This leaves the remaining pixels, for my lack of a better way to explain it, slightly shifted from where they should be in the image. When you have fine lines, it leads to very ugly results. The only zoom levels that won't look ugly in this case are the multiples of 2 (50%, 25%, 12.5%, ....)

This is the same thing you're seeing on Photobucket since web browsers use the same quick method for resizing. When you're on the image preview, just click it and it will show you the 100% version.

 

[jann1033]

When I read this it clicked what you were talking about.

Looks something like this I assume?

When viewing an image in an editor zoomed to less than 100%, it is using the fastest available method to resize the image to display on the screen called "nearest neighbor" where it basically just removes pixels without doing any interpolation. For instance, if you are zoomed out to 66%, it is basically just removing 1 out of every 3 pixels in a row of pixels. This leaves the remaining pixels, for my lack of a better way to explain it, slightly shifted from where they should be in the image. When you have fine lines, it leads to very ugly results. The only zoom levels that won't look ugly in this case are the multiples of 2 (50%, 25%, 12.5%, ....)

This is the same thing you're seeing on Photobucket since web browsers use the same quick method for resizing. When you're on the image preview, just click it and it will show you the 100% version.

thanks, that is exactly it...glad it isn't something i did