Does anyone see the jagged edges?

[beachgirl]

Or is it me? On my monitor the edges look jagged.65833

[buffalopc7]

Not on my monitor, nope (18" lcd). Edges look sharp, nice shot!

[Poco]

Aside from the JPG compression artifacts that image looks good. Try posting a small100% crop so you can turn down the compression.

[mbze430]

I don't see the picture!!! I'm blind!

[cdifoto]

I see compression artifacts (normal) when I get a couple inches from my 19" LCD screen, but aside from that it's a beautifully sharp shot...and a great capture to boot!

[beachgirl]

Aside from the JPG compression artifacts that image looks good. Try posting a small100% crop so you can turn down the compression.

Poco, can you explain 100% crop? Newbie alert.
PeAcE.
Jenny

[cdifoto]

Poco, can you explain 100% crop? Newbie alert.
PeAcE.
Jenny

I can. It's where you enlarge an image to 100% view in your image editor and just crop out a small section. Don't resize that section or anything. Just crop it out and save it as-is.

[beachgirl]

And Big thanks to eveyone for the nice words. If it weren't for the questions i had i wouldn't have shown anyone this. Glad I posted it.
Best Regards,
Jenny

[beachgirl]

I can. It's where you enlarge an image to 100% view in your image editor and just crop out a small section. Don't resize that section or anything. Just crop it out and save it as-is.

Should I enlarge one of the problem areas??

[cdifoto]

Should I enlarge one of the problem areas??

Don't enlarge it. Just view it at 100% on your screen and crop it. That's it. Don't crop it to resize either. You want a "life size" portion of the image.

[beachgirl]

Don't enlarge it. Just view it at 100% on your screen and crop it. That's it. Don't crop it to resize either. You want a "life size" portion of the image.

OK cdi-ink, will do it now. And post it after?
jenny

[Meaty0]

It's a good shot BG. A good 'feel' to it. Nice pose, composition, good skin color and tone, and WB seems good too. I see only a few JPEG artifacts. Did you shoot RAW? If not, what size image did you shoot on the camera? Part of the problem is the 100KB limit for image attachments, so you might want to post your images using Image Hosting like Imageshack or similar.

[cdifoto]

That image is only 33.49KB...nowhere near the attachment limit. The artifacts are compression, guaranteed. That's severe. BUT it doesn't look bad if I'm a normal distance from my monitor. Cut back on the compression and you won't see these "jaggies".

[beachgirl]

That image is only 33.49KB...nowhere near the attachment limit. The artifacts are compression, guaranteed. That's severe. BUT it doesn't look bad if I'm a normal distance from my monitor. Cut back on the compression and you won't see these "jaggies".

How do I cut back on the compression??I know total newbie.
jenny

[cdifoto]

How do I cut back on the compression??I know total newbie.
jenny

I don't know what software you use, but in Photoshop, you can Save for Web or Save As and choose a percentage or scale (quality). The higher the percentage or number on the scale, the bigger the file, but the higher the quality and less compression artifacts you see.

Lowering the percentage drops the quality and the filesize.

High Compression means you used a lower percentage/scale and therefore have a lower quality image. Low Compression (ie cutting back on the compression) means the opposite.

[beachgirl]

It's a good shot BG. A good 'feel' to it. Nice pose, composition, good skin color and tone, and WB seems good too. I see only a few JPEG artifacts. Did you shoot RAW? If not, what size image did you shoot on the camera? Part of the problem is the 100KB limit for image attachments, so you might want to post your images using Image Hosting like Imageshack or similar.

Thanks meatyo, How do you see ALL that.? Yup shot RAW.

PeAcE;)
Jenny(a.k.a. BG)

[Issac Brock]

Looks fine to me, nice shot.

[chinabuddie]

on my laptop.. my pictures would look jagged.. ONLY in like INTERNET EXPLORER.. in photoshop and XNVIEW they looked fine. I found out it was the DPI setting on my laptop

[beachgirl]

Looks fine to me, nice shot.

THANKS Issac.

PeAcE.
Jenny

[beachgirl]

on my laptop.. my pictures would look jagged.. ONLY in like INTERNET EXPLORER.. in photoshop and XNVIEW they looked fine. I found out it was the DPI setting on my laptop

Thanks chinabuddy, I considered that too, I just relized it IS a JPEG.DUH:oops: I shot some in RAW and A couple in JPEG that day. Mysterey solved by cd-ink.

Thanks to everyone, for being patient;)
Jenny

[Poco]

on my laptop.. my pictures would look jagged.. ONLY in like INTERNET EXPLORER.. in photoshop and XNVIEW they looked fine. I found out it was the DPI setting on my laptop

That is because IE, by default, will reduce the size of large images to make them fit in the window. This makes it look horrible. If you hover your mouse over the image a button will appear in the bottom right corner that, when you click, will resize the jpg to full pixel size.

You can also make IE not do that in the first place. In the "Advanced" tab of the "Internet Options..." dialog you can de-select "Enable Automatic Image Resizing" (under "Multimedia").