Do you have a place you could post the raw file for others to download and give it a try?
"Kenton Brede" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> >wrote: >> On 2010-12-18 13:10 , Kenton Brede wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:59 PM, steve harley<[email protected]> > wrote: >>>> >>>> did you shoot RAW or JPEG? did you save as JPEG multiple times >while >>>> editing? >>> >>> I'm working from RAW. I only save once, after tweaking the RAW. >> >> do you see the "pixelation" in the RAW? those rectangular blocks seem >too >> uniform to represent data from the sensor, so something is creating >them - >> denoising? i dunno > >I don't see it in the RAW. It's only when I save as JPEG. I'm >evaluating Bibble and Lightroom. I see the beginning of the >pixelation (yellowing) at about 80% quality, 72dpi. Lightroom is >putting out just a slightly better quality JPEG @ 80%, but it weighs >in at 359KB as opposed to the 152KB of Bibble. If I go 100% quality >on the JPEG there isn't any pixelation, just some yellowing with both. > If I darken the black with "curves" then the pixelation really starts >to come out. > >Right now the best I can do is use the auto rendering that the >programs create and save as 100%, and it doesn't look too bad. I just >end up with files that are around a MEG which isn't really ideal for >web. :) But I think that's what I'll go with. > >Sorry I'm a complete newbie at this. Just thought maybe I was doing >something wrong that would be obvious to someone. >Thanks, > >-- >Kent Brede >http://aphotoaday.sandhillsnaps.org/ > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
