Posting Images on TPF and Degrading IQ

[SPW]

I see LOTS of beautiful images posted here... Mine look good BEFORE I post them, but the IQ suffers pretty drastically when I do post them here. I don't know if this is a function of how I am posting the images on TPF... or my post processing workflow or what.

Right now all my PP is done in LightRoom only... No Photoshop of any kind yet. I export an image to a sized .jpg after adjustments (usually 900 pixels on the longest edge @ 100% image quality) and they look great on my computer, my Flickr page and another forum I frequent, but look pretty bad when I post the same images here.

When I start a new thread and use "Manage Attachements" to load the images from my hard drive. I know this compresses the images quite a bit and suspect that's why the IQ is falling off so much.

There has got to be a way to upload images here and not have this IQ degradation... As I said... I see beautiful images here everyday.

I haven't posted anything in a while because of this...

Can someone help me out here?

Thanks!

Steve

[PIC]

What you are saying may be common with many forms.
First there is color quality then brightness contrast saturation etc.
Differ web forums could require different post processing due to background etc.
Some have white backgrounds some black some something other.

You might want to adjust for sRGB instead of aRGB and then adjust
exposure tint contrast brightness saturation clarity vibrance etc. for the specfic site in question.
Open in Camera Raw {even if you shoot in JPEG} adjust above and then go on to PS adjustments like DPI, size, filters, etc.
Post and check it you may then have to adjust again.

P.S. all my web images are 300 DPI thumbnails at 1 inch short side size an run apx 50 - 100 Kb in size

[Abel]

hey steve.. email me over an image that youve noticed is getting degraded... remember send it to me as if you were uploading it so i can check it out myself..

thanks