Loosing Sharpness???

[princer7]

I am loosing a lot of sharpness and detail in photos posted to Flickr and Smugmug vs what I see in Lightroom. I have attempted to save for the web in CS5 but even that does not make a difference in what I see. Is this just a limitation to the browser (Internet Explorer) or is there a setting I need to tweak. I am looking at files at 100% their native saved size (1024 on the long end). Colors are true but the sharpness not so much.

[KenJulio]

what size are you uploading to Flickr/Smugmug? Are you using the collections for flickr/smugmug or are you using a 3rd party plug-in in lightroom?

if you look in the sports section for the dragon boat race, i uploaded directly from lightroom 3 via the collections to smugmug at full res

[princer7]

I am uploading directly through Lightroom. The photo is resized before publishing to the web sites at 1024 as the long edge. I use Nik Software for resize and final sharpening (Lightroom export to file folder). I am viewing original 1024 size in Flickr and Smug Mug when comparing to Lightroom file also at 1024.

[KenJulio]

For grins, can you upload one at full res to see how it compares?

[princer7]

I'll give that a try.

[princer7]

D'oh!!!! I found out what I was doing wrong. My browser was set to 125% instead of 100% which severely degraded the image quailty. So embarrased