Best way to preserve quality on Flickr?

Everytime I upload a photo to Flickr, I am disappointed with the loss of quality and sharpness. The photos lose their pop and look alot more drab.

When I am done processing my photo, I resize to something like 1200x800, set to Bicubic sharper, and then save as jpeg in highest quality. I have noticed that the 'Bicubic Sharper' setting helps reduce anti-aliasing, but I want my images to remain sharp.

Are you saving the images with sRGB embedded profiles ?

It appears that I am not. The photos are using Adobe RGB. How can I change this?

I tried saving it with sRGB and it had no impact on quality. It only changed the colors.. (I am doing more research on this and I'm starting to understand it)

I have been trying to get this photo to stay sharp when I upload it but Im not getting anywhere
http://www.flickr.com …049601295/in/ph​otostream/

I tried converting to sRGB, reduction using Bicubic sharper to 1200x800 and 300dpi(up from 240), then saved as jpeg highest quality.. still not any better.

Chris, definitely convert to sRGB for Web use. Then, for a site like Flickr, I'd find out their maximum display size and just resize it to that size. So, for an image that you've posted there, right-click and get the properties, check out the size (it should show the resized size), and then when you do the Image/Image Size set those pixel dimensions. I am not a Flickr user, but there are a lot of people here who use Flickr with pretty good results.

Image looks okay here at 800x1200...

ppi is irrelevant for web posting.
definitely use sRGB for web.

You might want to sharpen after resize, or use an action that does this for you while resizing. (Manyk SRS for instance; Google will find it)

The biggest impact I saw in the quality was by sending it to flickr in lower dimensions and re-sharpening after the resize. It makes a huge improvement over sending them a huge image and then having their algorithms resize them.

OneFastt996 wrote in post #11030301
The biggest impact I saw in the quality was by sending it to flickr in lower dimensions and re-sharpening after the resize. It makes a huge improvement over sending them a huge image and then having their algorithms resize them.

Do you mean that you resize, re-sharpen and then upload? Or, resize, upload and then resharpen in picnik?

Riveredger wrote in post #11030581
Do you mean that you resize, re-sharpen and then upload? Or, resize, upload and then resharpen in picnik?

Option number one.

I found flickr to retain the sharpness of my photos... never had a problem with it. even if I upload original dimensions or resized. I can't see the difference

Thanks for the help everyone! I have figured out the main reason; turns out my browser was 'zooming in' on each page causing the images to look dull. This is why the looked good in a file browser, but bad on the internet.

I also came across this great writeup on optimizing images for web use which really helped with my workflow
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=265690

Thanks again!

I thought I was done, but I just noticed something... I converted to sRGB using the photoshop 'convert to web use' but when I look at the exif on flickr, it still shows Adobe RGB 1998.. Im not sure what Im doing wrong here.

René Damkot wrote in post #11030290
You might want to sharpen after resize, or use an action that does this for you while resizing. (Manyk SRS for instance; Google will find it)

I googled this and added the action to PS and it is AMAZING! All I can say is WOW, what an incredible job it does of sharpening. Thanks so much.

Yes, thanks to Rene....I googled it too.
Works great.

Glad to be of service guys

chris jones wrote in post #11035433
I thought I was done, but I just noticed something... I converted to sRGB using the photoshop 'convert to web use' but when I look at the exif on flickr, it still shows Adobe RGB 1998.. Im not sure what Im doing wrong here.

Not sure either. Wrong exif viewer?: