Seems like there's never enough time. I have finally sat down to try and edit a few photos from our vacation to Colorado last summer. Here's the first few I've gotten done. Let me know what you think.
Wow, Photobucket really trashed a couple of the pictures. The B&W of the train isn't even close, it's totally washed out compared to the original. I think I need to find a better hosting site for any photos I edit.
Have always said I will retire in Colorado... that is if my wife can drag me from these midwest whitetails! Awesome photos thanks for sharing!
Thanks..... Now I really want to go back. September was way to long ago. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
User Imgur. They don't compress the piss out of your image. It's also free. Are you saving your edits as JPEG?
I saved these a JPEG. I have save others as both JPEG and Tiff. How does everyone else save their completed edits?
Well I shoot raw then edit then save as JPEG for upload, save as PSD for archive. Here are some photos that I've done that way.
All web files are resized for long edge and sharpened for screen via Lightroom. It's most likely just Photobucket's compression.
I'm sure it is. The files I saved as JPEG's look fine on my computer, but as you can see that first B&W picture is really washed out. Even the picture I uploaded via BH.com is better. I save my photos as JPEG if I'm planning on just using them on the web and TIFF if I'm planning on printing them. I've never saved as PSD. Maybe I need start saving a copy that way as well.
What are you editing with? I only save PSDs if I actually go into Photoshop to edit. Otherwise my masters are kept as RAW (DNG) both unedited (straight off the card), and edited with the sidecar file from LR.
I just always save in .PSD due to clients wanting changes and what not. It makes it easier to go back and modify small details you might want to tweak.
Mostly Lightroom, but I will do some editing in Photoshop, especially if I'm doing a panorama or an HDR. Then I save it and it sends me back to Lightroom, and that's what I use to export the finished edits.
Skywalker are you shooting in RAW or .jpg? Reason I ask is that I avoided RAW for years and recently switched to shooting more and more RAW (or RAW + .jpg). I'm finding what I knew all along but never wanted to tackle, that I can be more creative in RAW and pull details out that I could not in .jpg. Noise seems easier to deal with as well. I do 99% of my photo editing in LR. I am doing some website changes and I think I will look at that imgur site for high resolution stuff. Photobucket is OK for general stuff but I have found it to crush quality photos at the wrong time just as you are seeing with your photos. Great photos and editing!
I'm shooting in RAW + JPEG. I only edit the RAW files. I use th JPEG as a reference sometimes, or if I just want to get a picture posted of something I took out on the net. I started shooting RAW two years ago, but unfortunately after my vacation to Yellowstone. I have some great pictures from the trip, but they are all JPEG, so not much latitude in editing them.
