Posting to the gallery

[jdcooper]

I am fairly new to posting in the gallery. I follow all the guidelines to create a file to upload.

I flatten my image; discard hidden layers; save as a jpeg; I change the resolution to 72 dpi and pixels to 700 by 700. I increase the quality to 12 with baseline standard checked.

I even convert my color profile to the one recommended for web viewing. And still my layouts seem fuzzy on line, not crisp and the text appears warped in some of them. The colors also seem off.

Is there something I am doing wrong?

[KerryMac]

Are you using an unsharp mask after resizing?
If not, try this: (this is in PS, not sure how to do it in elements)
Go to the filters menu, sharpen dialog, choose unsharp mask and enter these settings: 100 .3 0
See if that helps!

[katrinak]

You can also try leaving your dpi @ 300. I don't change mine.

[dugarner]

Try just saving them like you're doing, 72 ppi and 700X700; 72 ppi is the ideal resolution for viewing on a computer screen. But save it at 10, not 12. Saving it at 12 will have the gallery display at one size (and I looked at your gallery---beautiful pages!), but when you click on the image, the crisp, clean page comes up. The colors look okay. Have you tried clicking on the image in your gallery?

Anyway, I don't change my color profile, either, and the colors display just fine.

Try that and see if it helps!

[hguenthe]

Some monitors are actually now 96 dpi so if you are looking at it with a 96 dpi monitor it is going to look a bit fuzzier than someone looking at it with a 72 dpi.

Like Katrina, I don't change my dpi anymore either. I leave it at 300 dpi and resize to 700 X 700 saving at a 12. I don't run any unsharp masks anymore on them as I find I don't need to leaving them at 300 dpi.

[dugarner]

Heather, when I save mine at 300 ppi and 12, it shows up fuzzy in the gallery unless I click on it to see the full-size image. Why is that? I just started saving it at 10 and it shows up the right way the first time.

[jdcooper]

Thanks so much for all the replies. I used the suggestions and it worked!

[hguenthe]

Originally Posted by dugarner

Heather, when I save mine at 300 ppi and 12, it shows up fuzzy in the gallery unless I click on it to see the full-size image. Why is that? I just started saving it at 10 and it shows up the right way the first time.

If you aren't viewing it at the actual resolution, it will look fuzzier as it will either be shrinking or enlarging it and making it look not as clear. When you click on it, you are bringing it to its normal resolution and thus getting its actual clarity.

However, I am not quite sure how you are seeing it at one size in the gallery and then clicking on it to see the full-size image. I am viewing the full-size images (unless a really big file but not for ones done at 700X700) so don't get an option to click it to see larger.

Or do you mean your thumbnails are looking fuzzy but fullsize looks fine? I have never bothered to really check how my thumbnails look for fuzziness to try changing it.

[dugarner]

Originally Posted by hguenthe

If you aren't viewing it at the actual resolution, it will look fuzzier as it will either be shrinking or enlarging it and making it look not as clear. When you click on it, you are bringing it to its normal resolution and thus getting its actual clarity.

However, I am not quite sure how you are seeing it at one size in the gallery and then clicking on it to see the full-size image. I am viewing the full-size images (unless a really big file but not for ones done at 700X700) so don't get an option to click it to see larger.

Heather,

It doesn't happen on the thumbnails, it happens on the full-size images. When I go, for instance, to this layout:

Jackson - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals

it looks full size but it is a little fuzzy, and below it says "click image to view larger size." When I click on the image, it reloads and looks just a little larger, but everything is all of a sudden super-sharp and clear. That used to happen to my gallery when I uploaded at 300ppi and 12 on the JPEG quality slider scale. That's the only reason I started consistently resizing, just to avoid that problem with my own images.

Anyway, it's no biggie, I was just curious why that happens sometimes, because my first reaction was that something was really wrong with the way PSE was saving my JPEGs. Then I figured out what I thought was causing the trouble, and I haven't had that happen since.

Strange, but true . . .