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06/05/2007 08:11:10 AM · #1 |
| I'm totally new to this website and photography so I'm hoping someone can help me! I entered a photo in the Religion challenge and all my critques came back that it was "out of focus"...but the actual photo isn't out of focus, but I had to resize it to submit it because it kept telling me the actual photo was too large. Can someone help me?? |
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06/05/2007 08:12:25 AM · #2 |
usually pics lose a bit of sharpness when resized... i usually use unsharp mask to bring it back... how did you resize it? did you change the dpi or the pixel dimensions?
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06/05/2007 08:15:00 AM · #3 |
check out this tutorial.
Welcome and have fun with digital photography - you will never stop learning :) |
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06/05/2007 09:54:45 AM · #4 |
| You don't have to lose sharpness when you resize. You *will* lose some of the fine detail, of course, because the size is being reduced so much. The key to retaining sharpness when resizing is the algorithm you use. If yoiu are editing with Photoshop, try setting it to "bicubic sharper" in the resize dialog, and resizing in either one or two steps. |
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06/05/2007 06:53:20 PM · #5 |
| Dude, it does the samething to me! And the loser part to it is, I don't have any money to spend on $600.00 photoshop! Just what comes with the pc. If you find anyway to fix it, thats free, please let me know!! |
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06/05/2007 07:01:05 PM · #6 |
Normally, sharpening is applied AFTER resizing the image. Perhaps you sharpened before resizing.
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06/05/2007 07:22:38 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by MightyTimBob:
Dude, it does the samething to me! And the loser part to it is, I don't have any money to spend on $600.00 photoshop! Just what comes with the pc. If you find anyway to fix it, thats free, please let me know!! |
Download the GIMP. It's free, and has a perfectly viable USM tool. It's not photoshop for sure, but it also has a bunch of other entirely useful functions.
www.gimp.org |
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06/05/2007 07:55:22 PM · #8 |
Indeed, as Samposted, there are capable, free options for editing. I'm not sure what resampling algorithms the GIMP offers, it's been a while since I used it.
Message edited by author 2007-06-05 21:14:35. |
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06/05/2007 09:10:00 PM · #9 |
It's not free, but it is significantly cheaper than PS, but paintshop does a fair job of resizing. As with photoshop, use the bicubic, not bilinear (I learned the hard way).
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