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Control image sharpeness like in old smugmug?
Starshade
Registered Users Posts: 13 Big grins
Hello,
I can clearly remember an amazing feature the old smugmug had: the possibility to adjust post-resize sharpness in a gallery. So each gallery would sharpen the final (smaller) image based on the settings provided. It was actually the feature that made me chose smugmug over other similar services because I am very picky when it comes to sharpness. Simple resize algorithms usually ruin the image quality. During the move I didn't notice the lack of adjustment and I viewed my website from a 13 inch full hd screen.
Does anyone know if it's possible to do anything about that? Sharpness loss is incredibly bad in the new smugmug (
I can clearly remember an amazing feature the old smugmug had: the possibility to adjust post-resize sharpness in a gallery. So each gallery would sharpen the final (smaller) image based on the settings provided. It was actually the feature that made me chose smugmug over other similar services because I am very picky when it comes to sharpness. Simple resize algorithms usually ruin the image quality. During the move I didn't notice the lack of adjustment and I viewed my website from a 13 inch full hd screen.
Does anyone know if it's possible to do anything about that? Sharpness loss is incredibly bad in the new smugmug (
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What you might be seeing on your screen is that the new SmugMug often uses your web browser to scale images down, e.g. in the lightbox. That causes a slight loss of sharpness, particularly if you're using an older web browser. The old SmugMug pretty much only used exact, non-scaled images, mostly because it dated back to a time when browser scaling of images looked horrible.
Please check out my gallery of customisations for the New SmugMug, more to come!
I have a power-level subscription. I don't see any sharpness controls on the website. Am I missing something? Sharpness controls are present in the Lightroom plug-in. Perhaps restoring yet another missing feature needs to go on SM's website to-do list.
My situation is not unlike Sharshade's: control of sharpening was the key feature that led me to upgrade from a basic to a power subscription early on.
Jim Ringland
jtringl.smugmug.com