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September 18, 2022
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Images look blurry in browser

  • September 18, 2022
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Hi. Can anyone take a guess as to why images that look sharp in Photoshop are looking soft on a browser? It's very frustrating.
Thanks.

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NB, colourmanagement
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September 20, 2022

Have you tried making images specifically to the dimensions they will have online, I mean the pixel dimensions? 

Once you've done that, try a little sharpening - that should help a lot.

If you're perhaps working with large images and placing those online so the browser is scaling - that could explain the reduction in sharpness. 

 

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Abambo
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September 20, 2022
quote

If you might are perhaps large images online and the browser is scaling that could explain the reduction in sharpness. 

By @NB, colourmanagement

Scaling down should not be a big problem, except on old Internet Explorer browsers. They create aliasing, as they don't scale with state-of-the-art technology. It's more that the picture is too small and gets upscaled by the browser.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
D Fosse
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September 19, 2022

I'm guessing you have a retina screen?

 

In that case the browser will scale up images, so that one image pixel is represented by four screen pixels.

 

Photoshop displays correctly, one image pixel represented by exactly one screen pixel.

Bojan Živković11378569
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September 19, 2022

Many things can cause this issue including your site template, for example. After exporting image from Photoshop, open it in some image viewer at 100%.

 

Does it look sharp? Its not Photoshop then.

 

Does not look sharp at 100% view? Which command and settings you are using to export or save?

Abambo
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September 18, 2022

You should show us a screenshot. The most plausible cause is, that the browser image is too small for the display. You also may have zoomed your browser, to have a bigger view on a smaller high-resolution screen.

 

If you have a specific website, you could also give that to us. Don't forget to tell us the dimensions of your pictures.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer