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JDL FILMS
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May 22, 2019
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Losing details when cropping

  • May 22, 2019
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I am having an issue with Photoshop. And I am hoping you guys would be able to give some advice. I am working on a product photography project in my Adobe Photoshop CC 2019. These product photos will be used on a website’s catalog to order and buy, thus the website has specific dimension specs: 1500 px  x Heigth open x 300ppi must have 5 px border and 24 Bit depth. My original photo begins to lose its’ details and sharpness when I open in Photoshop to Crop and Resize the photo for a specific dimension. My original photo looks fine when I zoom in and out with clear details on the product. However when I resize and crop the photo in Photoshop, it begins to lose it sharpness and details and becomes very pixelated.  I think I have tried everything I could find on YouTube but nothing seems to work to retain the products details and sharpness in photos. Any suggestions I would truly welcome.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oLd2wKAHNXUFCq-NmTWc6YDH8oR0vDau

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FtRoh5VVSDkTaY6bkRUIcD2ZCg1g8x7c

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    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    May 22, 2019

    First I did a perspective crop because it look like you took the shot from an angle. The perspective crop may help a little to reduce the distortion.  I then resized to a 1500px width.  The of course will loose some detail.  You reducing the number id Pixels you have for the images. You can not save all the details you have for the larger image.  You have fewer pixels to store details in.  Here is the quality I see after a quick perspective crop and an image resize.

    adding a level adjustment

    Different crop and curve

    JJMack
    JDL FILMS
    JDL FILMSAuthor
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    May 22, 2019

    JJMack, you are correct. I shot these photos up in an odd angle because the table set-up was taller than me and my apple-box and at the current time I do not have tethering equipment. I plan on getting when I get another big project. Ultimately, I had to stand on a table with my tripod and camera about 2 feet away shooting downward, however, the camera was still not right on top of the products. 

    davescm
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    davescmCommunity Expert
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    May 22, 2019

    Hi

    Your cropped image looks sharp at 100% zoom (which in Photoshop maps 1 image pixel to 1 screen pixels). Zooming in any further is just showing the individual pixels. That is expected, the original photo shows a closer view at 100% zoom (i.e. the same 1:1 mapping)  purely because it has more pixels.

    Dave

    davescm
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    davescmCommunity Expert
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    May 22, 2019

    Incidentally you might want to use a curve to lighten the white background, use Content aware fill (or a brush) to fill the gap at the top right corner and when you export the image make sure you convert to sRGB and Embed the colour Profile.

    Dave

    JDL FILMS
    JDL FILMSAuthor
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    May 22, 2019

    Thanks Dave, thats my next step. Just wanted to make sure that I was not seeing "crazy" on the screen.

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