Posting photos to blogs? Lose quality

[MartyMoore]

September 17, 2011 at 11:25 pm

Hi guys

I own a blog called freshfix.net. Now when i upload the photos to wordpress and post them they dont seem as sharp as they do on the screen before I upload them to wordpress. They go very soft.

What would you guys suggest?

thanks

http://www.freshfix.net

[markclehane]

September 18, 2011 at 2:13 pm

Presming that you’re using photoshop or elements, have you ticked “Bicubic Sharper” when resizing them for internet usage? That may help a little. Maybe someone will have a more technical explanantion or solution for you if this doesn’t help you though.

[MartyMoore]

September 18, 2011 at 5:50 pm

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I will change it to that. I also zoomed out of the site a tiny bit and the images looks alot sharper

[DanB]

September 19, 2011 at 2:43 pm

I discovered a way to make the images look sharper by accident. If I uploaded an image, say 1024 pixels in length, when I posted the link on the blog, I used the link to the next size, say 800 pixels. It turns out they look better. That’s from Flickr. When I used links from my picassa albums, the images looked dead and soft no matter the size I linked to. I guess it’s how the host server works.

So the idea is to choose to show a smaller image than the one you are uploading. This makes the image sharper, by accident, as I said :)