What am I doing wrong in resizing?

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As I understand it the size for posting in the forums is max 800px on the sides and 200kb on file size.

On a couple of recent shots where there has been a lot of detail in writing on packages etc I have had files of 5mb with dimensions of 4100by 2200 and have cropped them to suit, made exposure adjustments and then resized in PSE to conform with forum rules.

The originals are clear on my monitor but the resized images for uploading to the forum are awful - pixellated and oof/very soft.

This may not be enough info but i don't know what I am doing wrong. Any ideas?

PS shots are jpegs from camera not RAW - if that makes any difference
 
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On the photos, not the ones you've just cropped but the ones that looked great just to big, save for web and devices in photoshop, I'm not 100% on the whole resizing etc but I'm pretty sure it does it for you...

Tho someone else may come along and say I've got it totally wrong :-)
 
You may also have to sharpen again prior to saving if it's a large reduction, even if you used the Bicubic Sharper option, it depends on the image. :shrug:
 
Yes when reducing for the web you will need to sharpen as a last step.
 
Alan, can you post some examples of the resized ones and link to the original large one?
Pixellated to me means more like oversharpening so I don't see how it can be soft / oof at the same time.
 
I think we need to see examples.
 
In photoshop.

Do all your image workflow then.

Go to.

Image tab at top > Image size.
In pop up box. Tick resample> then at top for pixels type in 800 for the longest side> click ok.

Image will drop very small on the screen.
(don't worry)

Go back to top click image tab> image size> when pop up box apears take the tick out of re sample. Then in the resolution tab insert 96.

Then save as jpeg. I use maximum quality but if file size is to big use high or medium they all look good on screen.

I dont host on the site put display my images in the threads via

http://postimage.org/

Works a treat for me.

Good luck.

Gaz
 
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Thanks for the advice thus far.

This is an e.g of what I mean which includes alot of detail, colours and contrast.(I have just altered exposure a little, cropped and sharpened). The original is 3852x3241, 4.21 mb and this e.g. is 800x673, 54kb.

The shot is now soft with some of the words clearly fuzzy, which is not the case on the original.

Don't know if this helps to illustrate what I mean.

DSC_2661_edited-1.jpg
 
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Go back to top click image tab> image size> when pop up box apears take the tick out of re sample. Then in the resolution tab insert 96.
Click to expand...

This is irrelevant and not required. Resolution only comes into play when printing the image. A 300ppi file is displayed the same as a 96ppi file.
 
The image looks ok to me. If you are zooming in you wont get the same level ofcdetail as you are removing most of it.

A slight sharpen will do the job.
 
Did you sharpen again after resizing, and before saving?

At this size, I can see Relish, Double Cream, Stork and Tropicana easily. A touch soft, but readable. Or did you mean writing smaller than that? As long as you're not zooming/expanding the image after resize, it doesn't look too bad to me. :shrug:

I just put your image into Photoshop though, and did Smart Sharpening at 50% and 1.0px, and it sharpened up quite well. :)
 
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