I love to see images that appear clear and vivid when posted on AR. I don't know how to do this. I just click on the upload button of Photobucket from the original jpeg file on my hard drive (specifying "large") and let the downgrade in quality begin. Since most of my files are also in the RAW format, is there a way to get a better image for web site posting than my simple procedure? If so, is anyone willing to give the "idiots guide to" how to do this?

which option on photobucket are you using to post them here? well,first off,do you consider this a good picture?

Nice pic.. But need to see the original and it the same size to say about the quality.

Don't know if differant hosting sites are better. I'll stick the same pic on a few and we'll see.

Wink your pics are awesome, I'd love to see 'em printed up by a pro.

well,photobucket has a few different options,some are compressed ,and if you go pro,I believe the image size is larger.
Oh,and that pic was taken by my 12YO son with a 10 megapixel canon.

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Originally posted by jb:
...do you consider this a good picture?

Looks fuzzy to me.

actually,viewing a different pic (the sunset one),one that I posted here on ar,and also have as my desktop,there is a noticeable difference in quality between the two,the uploaded one isnt nearly as crisp.

You definitely lose some quality on an upload, and you are also giving up detail as the image is basically quite low in resolution. With that being said, if it is sharp to being with and blessed with contrast best suited to the tonal range of the image, your posted results should be just fine.

I use photobucket, and while it is far from archival quality, it's still one of the best avaiable.

The black and white coyote photo was taken with a cheapie digital camera at its highest resolution, which is still pretty low in the overall scheme of things. The color coyote photo was taken with a Nikkor 500mm f/4 manual focus lens on an FM@ body, but this image was a low-rez scan from a small, non-color-corrected (3x5) proof.

Even so (and taking into considering the upload), you can still see eyelash detail.

The silhouette was a direct scan of a negative taken with Nikon 35mm gear. Even without seeing the original, you can probably tell that an upload doesn't do justice to the stark range of tones and "grays" things a bit via a reduction in contrast.

The photo of the cartridges was taken with a cheapie digital and yet allows decent detail to be seen -- so one thing you can see is that the internet and its uploads sometimes serves as the great equalizer between images of decent and sub-par quality.

But again, if it begins as a quality image, the end result should be OK.

One way to defeat the low-quality of low-rez images is to get in close and give detail a better chance to be preserved. The recovered bullet photo is what I'd consider a low-quality image, but you can still see ample detail.

Ditto for the bucks; framing helps the otherwise low photographic quality.

You can resize it yourself using better software than the resize/compress automation on the hosting sites. I generally do not bother.