Why do I have poor picture quality for 291 kb jpeg picture?

[karen]

I'm using pictures from my camera which takes hi resol. picts, but when I
insert the pics into a web page, they appear fuzzy while much smaller file
size pics on the same page appear way better.

For example the boat pic on the first page of www.seejayneplay.com is
2700kb, but appears fuzzy. What do I need to do?

Thanks!!!

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Images are WAY WAY TOO BIG.

Don't use FP to resize them...all that does is restrain the size it's not
optimizing them.

Use a program like IrFanview (free) to resize, rename, OPTIMIZE etc. BEFORE
you Import them into FP. Once you Import them into FP then place t hem into
your Design.

http://www.irfanview.com

(this is an awesome program)


hth

 

[ReneeC]

I'm using pictures from my camera which takes hi resol. picts, but when I
insert the pics into a web page, they appear fuzzy while much smaller file
size pics on the same page appear way better.

For example the boat pic on the first page of www.seejayneplay.com is
2700kb, but appears fuzzy. What do I need to do?

Thanks!!!

Hi Jane,

I think I know why that looks "fuzzy". The size of that image is MUCH Larger
than it needs to. In a way you are supplying way too much information and the
information is being reduced to fit it all in in and in doing so, visual
information is being lost.

I tool the image, copied it to my system and looked it with Photoshop. You
have what is actually a 2592 x 1944 pixel image represented in a space of 339
x 256 pixels and a tremendous amount of visual information is being lost and
that's why it appears fuzzy. Your photo is 14 megabytes and that photo will
kill someone viewing your page with a modem. It only needs to be about 252 KB
or about 1/60 the number of bytes of your photo. The resolution of the
average photo on the net is 72 pixels/inch. You do not need all the
resolution that you have.

After I cut it down with photoshop, the picture wasn't much better beause it
had been reduced so much.

In the future you may want to take much lower resolution photos, not higher.

With the latest version of Photoshop I was able to reduce the pictures to
something was very what you would want. But it's only the latest version of
photoshop that has "smart tags" for these kind of lossless reductions of so
they say. You can download a trial version from Adobe, if you don't have it.

Renee

 

[Murray]

Yeah - I was going to say that 250K is still 10x too large....

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Using XP's picture thingie it optimized it to that. Using PS and just saving
to a jpg it did the same. Using PS Save for Web you're given choices and
comparsions to view, 13k was not the lowest either.

 

[p c]

Your image will look fine if it is displayed in its actual size (2592px
x1933 px). It is distorted because you specifed a smaller size for the
image tag. Browsers stretch or compress image to the size you specify.

Also, that image's file size is too big for a web page unless all your
users have broabdband), 2.83 MB.

As other suggeted: use image editing software to crop and size the image
to the actual size you want to use on the web page. And use the edited
image instead with iamge tgs for its actual size.
...PC

 

[Jeff Teel]

Hi Renee
I was wondering what image you were looking at that you said was 14 MB? The
two images on the home page at www.seejayneplay.com only total 4.43 MB after
I downloaded them.

Jeff