resizing or compression problem ??

[Duane]

After I process an image in PE8 I save as a tiff file. Then I do Image Resize and save as a jpeg for submission to TPF. My problem is that the submission to TPF is never as sharp as it is on my monitor. Why??

[jeffkohn]

The JPEG quality setting can affect image sharpness/detail. Also, when down-rezzing a high-resolution image to web-size, applying a little bit of sharpening is usually a good idea.

Are you uploading the images to TPF as attachments? If so, there's a limit on maximum file size, and uploading a file that is over the limit will cause TPF to re-compress it using very heavy compression that substantially lowers image quality. So make sure you're under the limit (I think it's 295kb or something like that).

[Duane]

Thanks! I'll try all you suggested. I use an image quality of 12 which is the highest. I stay in the limits of 900 X "something" which usually results in @ 400kb I think. I double check all that on the next submission.