Howz the sharpness? C&C Please

Cosworth, OK thanks, YUP it's very blury. And I was actually right for a change. Still kinda stumped on the saving files though. When I saved in SAVE AS It was to big to post but when I save in save for web it it is fine.( quality 10)
I have soooooooooo much to learn and understand.BIG thanks though.
PEacE,
BG

Yes. Exactly.

Also, here is an example of 100% crop (I think!). Mr. Lay will correct me if I'm wrong! The first is a 2" full-res version of the center of the second pic, which was downsized to 800px across. (hope this isn't too confusing!)

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Dear beachgirl,

A more complete description of how to do a full detail 100% crop is found at Frame 37 - in this thread:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...t=346​06&page=3

However, the gist of it is as follows:
Looking at the original image (preferably in a 16 bit mode and in a lossless format, such as psd or tif, pick a small region of the original image with critical detail - i.e., detail of the type that would most readily show softness due to motion or due to out of focus. Crop to a size of 100 x 100 pixels, for example. Make certain that as you perform the crop that the cropped segment of the full image ends up as only 100 x 100 pixels. No re-sampling should occur. Do NOT enable any re-sampling. The image should now be about 10000 pixels total, which would be about 30000 bytes (30 kB). Change the mode to 8 bits/channel and save as JPG using highest quality (12) - minimum compression. The file will now be about 10 kB or less. and when viewed on the screen at 100% it will be a little over an inch square. You can optionally choose to make it around 200 x 200 pixels, and the file size will be more like 40 kB. An image done this way will show all viewers the same level of detail as the author sees in the original.

I cannot tell whether your crop was properly made or not. If you made the crop from the 800 x 533 image then you did not do it correctly. The crop must be made from the original 3456 x 2304 pixel image (assuming that it is from an 8 MP camera).

Dear cosworth,

The JPG artifacts are certainly a factor. However, when you down-sample an 8 MP image (3456 x 2304 pixels) to an 800 x 533 image for posting on this forum, there is no quality or detail left, so the JPG artifacts only make an already pixellated image into a mottled and posterized pixellated image.

It was from the original image, but I didn't do it correctly. Thanks for the tutorial!

Robert_Lay wrote:
Dear cosworth,

The JPG artifacts are certainly a factor. However, when you down-sample an 8 MP image (3456 x 2304 pixels) to an 800 x 533 image for posting on this forum, there is no quality or detail left, so the JPG artifacts only make an already pixellated image into a mottled and posterized pixellated image.

Exactly why I asked her to send me her original file. I wanted to show her a nice tidy way to resize and sharpen her future pictures.

I agree! BTW, if those folks who are good at doing a 100% crop would be so kind as to critique my tutorial on the subject, I would be glad to revise it. I get the impression that it is still too mysterious for people to deal with.

Bob, this link doesn't work for me but your first one does.

EDIT: Now for some reason it does.

I think what might be confusing for some is that you don't have to view the picture at 100% to do a 100% crop. If I get a chance I could do one at lunch and screen capture the steps, or if someone else has a chance it might help.

Ok here is a quick example using CS2 with some screen shots. You may comment all you want regarding the pics and my technique.

1. This is the original RAW file opened up, nothing else. Notice that the image shows I am viewing at 19.9%.

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3. Here you can see I used the crop tool to select around the head of the bird and clicked the checkmark to crop the image.

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Dear Mike,

Tnx a million for sharing your very helpful additional examples of the 100% crop. I'm sure that will be of great assistance to those trying it the first time.
Very much appreciated.

Maybe I'm just slow or dense, or both... but there doesn't seem to be any real "exact science" to a 100% crop. You took a full res image and used the marquee tool to make a crop box, which if someone else had done it, could have been a different size. You then cropped the image and saved the selection as a new file.

I guess what I'm beginning to understand is that one guy's 100% crop is going to differ from another and there really is no exact science to it when you select a section with the marquee tool.

If my theory is correct, could one create a new blank canvas, maybe 100x100 or 200x200 pixels and paste the full res image onto that canvas? Once the full res photo has been pasted, you could move it around until you find the section of the photo you'd like to keep as your 100% crop.

This way, all of your crops will at least be consistent. Should the amount of pixels differ from a shot taken by a 30D vs a 5D, considering the megapixel difference?

Honestly, the term 100% crop doesn't make any sense to me. Defining something with a percentage generally allows there to be an equation that can be used to always obtain the same result. A formula. There doesn't seem to be any formula to go along with this "100% crop". To crop something, means to take away, right? So, if I have a number, "50" for example and I take away "100%", I'm now left with nothing. Wouldn't it be better to do a 5 or 10% crop, that way you have a consistent amount of pixels?

Sorry if this has been answered/addressed, but after pouring over the threads, I can't seem to find a straight answer.

Anomalyi wrote in post #4514836
Maybe I'm just slow or dense, or both... but there doesn't seem to be any real "exact science" to a 100% crop. You took a full res image and used the marquee tool to make a crop box, which if someone else had done it, could have been a different size. You then cropped the image and saved the selection as a new file.

I guess what I'm beginning to understand is that one guy's 100% crop is going to differ from another and there really is no exact science to it when you select a section with the marquee tool.

If my theory is correct, could one create a new blank canvas, maybe 100x100 or 200x200 pixels and paste the full res image onto that canvas? Once the full res photo has been pasted, you could move it around until you find the section of the photo you'd like to keep as your 100% crop.

This way, all of your crops will at least be consistent. Should the amount of pixels differ from a shot taken by a 30D vs a 5D, considering the megapixel difference?

Honestly, the term 100% crop doesn't make any sense to me. Defining something with a percentage generally allows there to be an equation that can be used to always obtain the same result. A formula. There doesn't seem to be any formula to go along with this "100% crop". To crop something, means to take away, right? So, if I have a number, "50" for example and I take away "100%", I'm now left with nothing. Wouldn't it be better to do a 5 or 10% crop, that way you have a consistent amount of pixels?

Sorry if this has been answered/addressed, but after pouring over the threads, I can't seem to find a straight answer.

You are doing quite nicely!

When I first came on the scene I found that there were people using the term "100%" crop without anyone ever explaining what they meant by that expression. Once I became satisfied that most people were consistent in their interpretation of what it was and how it was used, I decided to try and standardize it. I added the phrase "full detail" to the term "100% crop" in order to make the term more unique and less ambiguous. I was terribly frustrated that even though I had presented a full explanation of how to do it, with example pictures, confusion still reigned. Then the gentleman with the street name "Bobster" came along and demonstrated the simpler way using the crop tool. I added his steps to my link so that people should have two different ways to do it - in the hope that one of the two ways would catch on.

The bottom line is that POTN is so democratic that chaos is only a small step backwards from the norm in many discussions, and there are very few true standards prevailing for how to do things. Which is fine - that's what makes the world go 'round.

BTW, in the term "100% crop" the 100% seems to refer to the level of detail, relative to the original image.

This will probably start a whole new round of confusion

Found this from 2006 - scroll down about half way:

http://photography-on-the.net …hread.php?t=152​215&page=2