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wiggy wrote:I have light room but I am to waiting to be shown how to use it and in the mean town I'm just using windows photos until I get shown how to use light lightroom as for resizing I click on resize then I click on something like enter custom dimensions and I put in 1092px or smaller at that is maximum size to even have a chance to get a photo accepted.
Cheers Hadleigh
Crosswindphoto wrote:wiggy wrote:I have light room but I am to waiting to be shown how to use it and in the mean town I'm just using windows photos until I get shown how to use light lightroom as for resizing I click on resize then I click on something like enter custom dimensions and I put in 1092px or smaller at that is maximum size to even have a chance to get a photo accepted.
Cheers Hadleigh
PM me your Discord or something similar. I'll give you a full rundown of how to use Lightroom!
Tim
Crosswindphoto wrote:I'll use anything you have, just let me know what you want to use.
Psych wrote:Hello Hadleigh.
Sounds as though things have been getting you down of late - rejections have habit of doing that. Hope you are feeling a little better about it all now.
To try to answer your question - in simple terms compression is the result of a digital image being reduced in size from its original dimensions (even creating a large jpeg from a RAW image of the same size results in some compression). The program that does the downsizing has to use a way of creating the image with a smaller number of pixels - so it is effectively throwing out some digital information. By definition, the quality of the result is going to deteriorate - especially when you take a closer look on a larger monitor. This particularly affects things like sharpness, contrast etc. Some methods (and programs) are better than others for resizing the original photo. It may well be that if you are not using a professional program such as Photoshop/Lightroom it simply doesn't do the greatest of jobs and so that downsizing is leaving tell tale signs of the reduction in quality. If you are starting with a jpeg image (not RAW) and you reduce the number of pixels that make up the image (to make it smaller to submit) you are going to get some compression - your job is to limit that as much as you can. A combination of the program you use and some editing skills are what is needed to minimise that.
Hope this helps a little.
Paul
Crosswindphoto wrote:Always shoot RAW, 100% of the time.
It may take up more space but it makes up for it in image quality.
That and implementing what I told you before should see a spike in the quality of your images.
Tim
Crosswindphoto wrote:Are you editing in Lightroom?
wiggy wrote:And also a head screener called me an arrogant teenager!!!
NIKV69 wrote:wiggy wrote:And also a head screener called me an arrogant teenager!!!
LOL, do yourself a favor take a deep breath and listen to the advice here. It's priceless. The one photo you referenced above has other issues like quality and dark so compression is the least of your problems. One thing you should incorporate is not to shoot when it's cloudy. Start with great light and go from there.
NIKV69 wrote:wiggy wrote:And also a head screener called me an arrogant teenager!!!
LOL, do yourself a favor take a deep breath and listen to the advice here. It's priceless. The one photo you referenced above has other issues like quality and dark so compression is the least of your problems. One thing you should incorporate is not to shoot when it's cloudy. Start with great light and go from there.
cpd wrote:NIKV69 wrote:wiggy wrote:And also a head screener called me an arrogant teenager!!!
LOL, do yourself a favor take a deep breath and listen to the advice here. It's priceless. The one photo you referenced above has other issues like quality and dark so compression is the least of your problems. One thing you should incorporate is not to shoot when it's cloudy. Start with great light and go from there.
Cloudy conditions aren’t a problem, provided you know what you are doing.
The nice plane you want to photograph might not always be there for your sunny side on photo. By trying to take photos in different conditions you learn more.
Wiggy: in your last post the image links are all dead for me so I cannot help much.
Always export at 100%, this will help a little bit against compression.
WZYAFX wrote:In the last saving step, select the maximum quality saving, and be sure to select 100%, otherwise it may lead to the current problem of your photos.
wiggy wrote:How are my photos still compressed even at 1020px?
cpd wrote:Cloudy conditions aren’t a problem, provided you know what you are doing.
The nice plane you want to photograph might not always be there for your sunny side on photo