Clearer pictures..

[CharityLynn]

Ok I have a HP digital camera (M425) it has 5 megapixels, the pictures turn out nice and clear on the camera and when I open the program to load them on my computer(HP Photsmart premiere)they look fine.

But when I upload them they are blurry. What can I do to have them as clear as they are on everything else. (they do load extremely large, and I resize them to make them smaller)

TIA for any and all help,

CharityLynn

 

[photo_chick]

There are a lot of things that can affect how you see the images...


when you say they look fine on your computer, is that viewing them at 100%?
When you say uploading, are you talking about taking them from the camera to the computer, or from the computer to the internet?
How are you resizing them?

Also, you are not resizing your originals are you?

 

[tinksdad]

Another thing that "may" be trouble is that color space of the picture. Most internet sites like to see sRGB color space. Have you changed it to AdobeRGB somehow??? You might not have the option, but that can affect the way they are viewed.

 

[CharityLynn]

There are a lot of things that can affect how you see the images...


when you say they look fine on your computer, is that viewing them at 100%?
When you say uploading, are you talking about taking them from the camera to the computer, or from the computer to the internet?
How are you resizing them?

Also, you are not resizing your originals are you?

IO'll have to check on the viewing at 100% thing, I'm not sure. This is my first digital camera ever.

As for uploading I mean from the computer to the internet.

Resizing..there is a button on the program when you edit the picture that says resize, i clicked the demensions for email... I do believe I am resizing originals....is that bad..lol







As for the second poster, I have no clue about Adobe whatever lol I am so new at this...

 

[Groucho]

It's most likely whatever it doing the resizing. Your original photos are a very high resolution, much larger than you'd want to view on the internet, so wherever you're uploading them is probably resizing them, and apparently doing a poor job.

You can try the free Irfanview (link in my signature), by default, it resizes photos using the Lanczos algorithm, which works very well. How big you resize them to is up to you, generally most people use somewhere about 700-800 pixels wide. Save the resized jpeg with about 80% quality and you should have a nice, still sharp photo.

 

[photo_chick]

Never save over your originals. When you resize, save the file under a different name. If you resize your originals down for e-mail or uploading and save them over the originals in that smaller size you probably will not have a high enough resolution file to print later.