Image Quality / Flickr or Photobucket

Question coming from a newbie. Here's a sample I processed and uploaded to my Flickr & Photobucket account. I noticed that the IQ from the Flickr is way better than Photobucket. I can't figure it why. Would anyone know? Thank you all.

Flickr

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Redirected to error image by FLICKR

Photobucket strips the ICC profile - I wouldn't use it.

Base on these photos,it's a no brainer,flickr images are better...

I don't know, the Flickr one looks really "crunchy" to me ...

the photo bucket version makes the girl appear to have used a bad tan in the can paste for her orangeness! the flickr one does indeed looks more natural.

Nice, er... Lens


I don't think Flickr 'messes' with uploaded images too much and it does look better in this case.

The flickr image looks better imo, but it's obvious that flickr uses far more aggressive sharpening, it's borderline oversharpened...

I almost went for an upgrade pro on photobucket til i realized that flickr is way better. That is why I posted this question to you all fellow POTN'r. Thanks for all the replies.

is the flickr version oversharpened or is that how it looks on your computer?

I didn't get photobucket earlier (I just recently got into photography), but I heard that they started compressing their files more and that compression screwed up how the image looks. Well, that was a while ago.

I just went w/ flickr.

IMO, the flickr image is oversharpened.

ok, i feel I need to ask my question again in a way that actually makes sense. Not sure why I wrote it that way :P

What I meant to ask is, is flickr sharpening the images, or are you processing it that way? Likewise, is photobucket blurring the image? Which one looks more like the original photo you uploaded? Or is it in-between?

It seems to me, if the image is uploaded and needs to be resized (i'm using free flickr), the resized version will probably have extra sharpening. But if it doesn't need resizing, then image is the same as the original.

When I resized one of my original moon shots to the same size as the flickr version, even w/ resampling using bicubic sharpener, it's still not as "sharp" as the flickr version.

Is that the same for you guys?

ohata0 wrote in post #12887231
Is that the same for you guys?

Yes.

Flickr does apply sharpening but doesn't appear to degrade quality by compressing the h*ll out of images. If uploading to Flickr (Or Smugmug etc.) I tend to only lightly sharpen images.

It could be that PhotoBucket has resized? From their support:

If your mouse cursor becomes a (+) when you mouse over the image, then you need to access that larger image that you uploaded. I always click on the image to get the 100% size that I've uploaded, & then use that URL for display.