Make your portfolio web images look their best
Publishing your best photos on your website portfolio takes involves more than just scaling them to 72dpi and making the dimensions smaller (although I’m a bit guilty of that). An article by photographer Lonna Tucker here shows how she makes her low res images look high res on her website.
Photographer Lonna Tucker has an interesting process she uses for preparing images for her website. See her secrets on the link above.
hive wrote:
Psst… her name is Lonna Tucker… you don’t want to upset the lady now ?
Good tip if you have photoshop… sadly i’m too broke to afford the license and work with PSP Photo X2 for which I haven’t found the profile conversion yet (maybe it doesn’t even exist)
Posted on 19-Oct-08 at 5:41 pm | Permalink
admin wrote:
Thanks for catch…
Posted on 19-Oct-08 at 5:46 pm | Permalink
Justin wrote:
This isn’t a very good tutorial.
Down sample using Bicubic, in steps. From 300, 250, 200, 150, 72. I’m the 20-something smart mouth know-it-all… Do a side-by-side. Size down one image using Bilinear and one using Bicubic — the difference is noticeable. Just because a veteran says something doesn’t make it right (Not saying you said that, Robert).
And the whole Unsharp Mask thing is nothing short of unnecessary — not to mention that is heavily dependent on the shot. Whereas downsampling is good across every shot.
Posted on 20-Oct-08 at 7:22 pm | Permalink
robert benson wrote:
hey, i’ll try it! thanks for posting your comment.
Posted on 20-Oct-08 at 7:27 pm | Permalink
Javier G wrote:
I agree with Justin, I did a side by side comparison with the tutorial and what I normally do.
The differences between the two where not apparent at first glance but after a while I first noticed that the “tutorial version” was softer and had more artifacts than the “normal workflow” one.
So it may be dependent in the image, but for a portrait, it didn’t really work. So its easier to just downsize using bicubic sharper, convert to profile, and save
Posted on 21-Oct-08 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
Justin wrote:
So glad I could be of assistance, gentlemen.
Love your site/work Robert. I’m not big on following photography blogs. As most are sickeningly pretentious. I find yours to be a breath of fresh air — I check it often. Thank you.
Posted on 23-Oct-08 at 5:23 pm | Permalink