ok found out why my pics dont post nice

Ok so i have posted a few pics and they just dont look right.... i was even told by a POTN member that he would have just deleted it as it sucked so bad... now he had a good point...

but i see how... but dont know the why and curious what i could do with that..

so i took a pic from my camera.... straight shot as .jpg and the file is 7.73MB @ 5184x3456
so what i was doing to ask a question is to take the pic.... and just use microsoft office picture manager and resize the picture down to a size to be able to upload.... well what i did to notice this... was i have a picture..... below you will see the full pic.... just resized.. that is it.... then you see a pic of taking the large .jpg and crop/slight resize....
if you were to download the first pic and zoom in... it is soooo fuzzy.... and you cannot make out the faces as in the second... why is this???

difference is drastic.... so now how are all you guys keeping your quality so high to ask for people to CC your images?

i tried lightroom 3 doing an export but it too looses the resolution... even photoshop cs5 image/resize does it too....... am i missing something?

now the difference between the original .jpg and even the cropped one is a world of difference... let alone i also have this file in a cr2... im confused... going to read through some more in this area...

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Are you sure it's not because you're cropping so small and it looks blurry because it's only such a small part of a large photo?

I'm not sur I understood your question, but have you tried uploading to flickr?

shidesha wrote in post #10813488
Are you sure it's not because you're cropping so small and it looks blurry because it's only such a small part of a large photo?

I'm not sur I understood your question, but have you tried uploading to flickr?

guess that is what i need to start to look at... guessing flickr allows fullsize files... if so then yes full quality is kept....

Resize in PS to less than 1024 longest side, then use the save for web option, just lower the quality slider till its under 150kb then save. that should allow you to get a decent web version.

The original is very soft. There are a dozen reasons why this could be. The most common are out of focus (my vote), camera movement, poor optics, shooting into the sun (glare), cheap (unnecessary) UV filter bouncing light around the inside of the lens.

Then you performed a major, major crop. If you want a cute picture of your kids, don't take the shot from 80 feet away with a kit lens shooting into the sun. It's actually remarkable that it's not worse than it is.

joedlh wrote in post #10816451
The original is very soft. There are a dozen reasons why this could be. The most common are out of focus (my vote), camera movement, poor optics, shooting into the sun (glare), cheap (unnecessary) UV filter bouncing light around the inside of the lens.

Then you performed a major, major crop. If you want a cute picture of your kids, don't take the shot from 80 feet away with a kit lens shooting into the sun. It's actually remarkable that it's not worse than it is.

Photography is unforgiving!!!! Well stated Joe.