Soft jpegs

[kali goddess]

Hi all, I have a weird question and I didn't see quite what I'm looking for by

searching.

 

When I'm working on a raw image in photoshop I do my adjustments and apply my

sharpening last. When I then save that image as a jpeg and view it online (or in

windows picture viewer) the sharpening seems to disappear. My images seem soft,

when the original (after ps or in DPP) was not. I shoot with a Canon 30D. Any

hints what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any help!

[Matt Laur]

Are you sharpening the image once it's already at the final size you'll be seeing online? And, when you DO save it as a JPG, how aggressively are you compressing it? Ideally, of course, link us to an example image that's exhibiting what you're seeing.

[ellis_vener_photography]

Do you have sharpening set to preview only in your camera raw preferences?

[kali goddess]

Yes Matt, I sharpen as the last step and I usually do it at "view - actual pixel" size. I only compress at 10-11 on the jpeg, just to keep the size small enough for web use. I'll post a link later, since I'm not currently at my home computer right now, though looking at most of my images in my page here I think they look soft compared to what the psd files look like.

 

Ellis, I will have to check, but I don't think so. When I save them as psd files, they look fine, it's just when I save to jpeg.

 

I feel like I'm missing something that will make me go "doh" when I figure it out, but can't put my finger on it.