- May I suggest you look into using Adobe Lightroom? It is a tuned down version of photoshop that is much easier to use. I use it myself for all of my photos.
- If you're using the Windows Photo app, when you are about save find "Resize" and you will be prompted with the popup shown in this screenshot:
https://prnt.sc/KDjvm2PntMxipress custom dimensions and enter 1200 pixels or lower wide and 800 pixels or lower tall, and make sure to slide the quality slider up to 100%. This will make the photo much smaller and hide all kinds of flaws to make it much more acceptable while keeping the compression to a minimum.
- No, I meant resize the dimensions of the photo, which I explained above.
Onto the feedback of the photos you posted.
VH-IEJ: some compression is visible, the nose is a little bit soft, and it could do with a boost in exposure. Easy fixes, with 2/3 solved by reducing the size.
N360SL: CW rotation needed, and its a tad UE, compression seems passable on this one.
VP-CJR: UE, and compressed again, otherwise looks nice.
N510MW: soft, compression, ue.
N165A: CW needed, but thats it really, this one is quite nice.
Do you shoot JPEG by chance? If you'd like, I can pm you my email address and you can send me some of you unedited photos for me to try editing. This will give you a good example of what an acceptable photo would look like.
Tim