I notice the picture quality is and clarity is lost (especialy in the background) as jpegs and the photos that looked really great on my camera screen look just so/so once uploaded. I hate jpgs!
2006-12-21 04:11:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
JPEG is not the problem. It is used with great success in the vast majority of digicams. Your camera only stores JPEG (as does mine), so you have no other choice.
Some expensive cameras also provide RAW or TIFF formats, but these only have advantages in special circumstances.
Sounds more like something else is the problem.
The transfer of the pics to computer may be corrupting them. If the USB cable is bad, the transferred data could be partially corrupted. Same result if you have a bad or dirty card reader.
You camera's LCD screen is actually a low resolution device. If you have the Picture Quality or Resolution on a low setting, the images will look good at low res, but not so good on your computer screen.
If you have the Quality setting on low, your camera will also do much more JPEG compression. This will also give you lower quality images. (High compression is the enemy, not JPEG)
Go to to the camera's Menus and set up for the highest resolution and highest quality. (I don't know exactly what vocabulary your Menu uses, but you should see something similar.)
Try some pics now. If the problem still doesn't go away, try a different USB cable or card reader.
Good Luck
2006-12-21 14:10:27 · answer #1 · answered by fredshelp 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
JPG is likely the only option on a PowerShot, but JPG is not your problem.
Background and foreground makes no difference in JPG. The only difference between background and foreground would be blurring, which relates to the aperture (size of the variable lens opening when the picture is taken). If you don't want to blur the background, use the auto or the landscape mode rather than the portrait mode. You also might see noise (graininess) in the background if there is a dark sky or clouds, and that relates to taking low light pictures.
2006-12-21 05:56:16 · answer #2 · answered by DocNice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jpgs are a standard file, especially when it comes to photographs. You probably will only have the option of jpg when it comes to uploading your images.
As far as the quality, your pictures should still look great, it can depend on what mega-pixel your camera is.
If you are familiar with photoshop or any image editing program, you can sharpen pictures with filters, but this can have limited results.
http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg/index.html
2006-12-21 04:28:43 · answer #3 · answered by trav-ice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JPEG is the standard; if you see 'great' in your camera, it will be the same in your computer if you have the same measurement of the image, try to make in your pc screen the same size as your camera and they will look alike.
Your problem is in the resolution, it is to low.
2006-12-21 10:47:40 · answer #4 · answered by bigonegrande 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suggest that you try uploading your photos using someone elese's computer (one with a newer computer and a new monitor). Assuming that the other PC has a great monitor and strong Video graphics card, check if your pictures come out better in his/her PC. If so, your problem is your PC and monitor.
You can try buying some PC equipment to help calibrate your PC's video card and monitor to view your pictures accurately.
2006-12-21 14:25:22 · answer #5 · answered by nonoy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 09:20:45 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋