CS2 sharpen tool

Rene, this is the color space I work with in Photoshop, so I am guessing its AdobeRGB...?

'Guessing' isn't the best thing to do for Color management...

René Damkot wrote in post #3171793
'Guessing' isn't the best thing to do for Color management...

I don't know what answering your looking for, cause I don't have it. Right now, I am trying to figure things out myself. Thats why I am here.

Okay. Makes sense. Reading back, I guess my comment might have come across as too much a wise ass remark. Not intentionally...

You could start off by reading the link in my sig (this one: here)

That will probabely provide all info on CM you'll want to know, and probabely more.
Also tells you how to set PS, whether sRGB, AdobeRGB or ProPhotoRGB would be a good choice. It also tries to explain why there is a difference between what you see in a CM application and a non CM web browser. So it *might* even explain the problem you are seeing. (I doubt it though, since you said Windows Fax Viewer showed the image fine).

Anyhow, if you're not sure how your CM is set up, you could do worse then *making* sure, and knowing why you set it up like you did.

shutter_blitz wrote in post #3171749
In2photos, could you elaborate on the following. I am not clear on what that means.

"The only other thing that I can think of is that the website (assuming you are viewing from a website since IE is involved) is doing some kind of resizing from an even larger photo that you did not list."

You are viewing the image from IE but you have not stated whether or not this is on a website. You can use IE to view a photo. If it is a photo that you uploaded to a website there might be some resizing that is taking place by the website itself. For example, lets say that I upload a 2400 x 1800 picture to my Pbase account. Now, I give you the address of the site and you go there to view it. The hosting site allows you to view resized images, like 800 x 600. But I only uploaded a 2400 x 1800 pixel image so they are resizing it for you to view. In this case the site is doing the resizing, not IE. But if you view the original 2400 x 1800 size and save it to your computer, than use IE to view the image and it fits the image to your screen size, then IE is doing the resizing. Make any sense?

No. I was wondering if you used a larger sized image then the ones you mentioned earlier but were viewing a smaller version of it. It doen't sound like you were but when you elaborate more on my answer above I will know for sure.

When you resize an image smaller you generally will lose the noise anyway. So this is to be expected. What is the intended use of the photos? Viewing on a web page? Then resize to a smaller image before they go to your client. They won't be able to use a 2600 pixel image on a web page anyway. Not printing means you can definately not worry about pixel size either. Your client will most likely resize the image smaller to work within the limits of the web page as well so send them an 800 pixel image but mention that if they need larger you have that available as well. If you want to be absolutely certain, ask them.

Rene, I did go through your link briefly yesterday. It has a lot of information I need to understand. I will be visiting that link frequently as I try to get a handle on CM.

In2photos,
yes your answer now makes sense. Thx.
I am not viewing the photos in a website, I just right click on the photo and select the 'open with IE' option.
Well I guess I have a temp fix for the problem and especially since websites downsize the image anyway. I'll have to work on it for future assignments.

Thx everyone.