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Downy Woodpecker



By TBSM1984 on Flickr

 

I need to get better at posting images, these look terrible resized but I don't want to post the full size image. Tips?

 

Resize then sharpen, just don't over-sharpen. Subtle is good.
If you're using Photoshop or similar start with:

Smart Sharpen:
Radius 0.2px < this is important
Amount 100%
If you need more sharpness, switch from Gaussian Blur to Lens Blur.

Or Unsharp Mask:
50%
1.0px
0 Levels

 

Interesting, I'll try that when I get home.

I'm a bit confused though, you do that when posting images to a web forum? Or always?
Just asking because the problem I was having is that the resized image that showed here looked terrible compared to the full size picture.

 

The forum's horizontal resizing ain't great. If you share from Flickr, Medium 640 (horizontal) will prevent this and people can still click on the image for the large version.

As far as I can tell, Flickr applies sharpening when it generates smaller versions of your image.

 

Ok, thanks!

I'll try that next time I put one up.

 

Yarp

I like this one!

I believe Flickr's resizing method tries to avoid jaggies and general ugliness as the sizes get smaller, which probably makes them look crisper. I doubt it's actual global sharpening, because why would they bother?

 

Ightham Mote by gkinrade, on Flickr

 

M/V Pont-Aven by Sam Masters, on Flickr

Sam

 

For about five laps in a row the driver kept drifting round this same corner.
Everyone around us cheered every time he came past.
It certainly added some excitement to the 15th hour of the race when everyone was cold and tired!



Hankook 24H Silverstone-121 by Jordan Stanhope Dean, on Flickr

 

IMGP9562 by Neil, on Flickr

Moorhen bookin' it some place else.

 

Hankook 24H Silverstone-112 by Jordan Stanhope Dean, on Flickr

 

Lady Bug

 

My first shoot in like three weeks! Amazed I knew which end of the camera to point at the model!

Venus Starr by Sam Dickinson, on Flickr

 

That would be an interesting sight.

 

I still can't figure out what these guys were taking photos of...



Hankook 24H Silverstone-62 by Jordan Stanhope Dean, on Flickr

 

(I just spent 20 minutes looking for this gif...)

 

I don't have that much hair!

 

My G/F and I had a go at making an adult movie last weekend and after waiting three hours for all the batteries to charge (during which we both almost fell asleep) we finally went at it. Two of the cameras worked, but the GoPro was set on the wrong mode and got nothing. Oh well, try again.

Let me tell you, nothing takes the sexy out of a video like staring at it over and over for two hours in editing

 

One last one from me



Hankook 24H Silverstone-159 by Jordan Stanhope Dean, on Flickr