Comments on: Make your portfolio web images look their best

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:23:36 +0000

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.

By: Javier G

Javier G — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:45:49 +0000

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

By: robert benson

robert benson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:27:27 +0000

hey, i’ll try it! thanks for posting your comment.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:22:52 +0000

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.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:46:38 +0000

Thanks for catch…

By: hive

hive — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:41:44 +0000

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)