Noob photo resizing question

Merlin5

Merlin5

Merlin5

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I've spent ages today to try and sort out an issue, doing everything I can to prevent embarrassing myself by having to ask, but, I have to ask! I snapped a photo which is 3.7mb and 5616 x 3744. I loaded it into photoshop and then cropped it. When I then use the magnifier and zoom in three times, I prefer the look of the enlarged size, better visible detail and brings the subject closer. All I want to do is post the photo in another forum here, but displayed at the size it looks when I'm zoomed in. I've tried resizing by going to image size and then I changed the width and height to 200%. It did its thing and then displayed the image much larger, same as when I'm zoomed in. But after saving it and then uploading to postimage.org and then posting it in the testing forum, it's not displaying any larger than before I changed the image size. So what am I doing wrong?
 
Merlin5 said:
I've spent ages today to try and sort out an issue, doing everything I can to prevent embarrassing myself by having to ask, but, I have to ask! I snapped a photo which is 3.7mb and 5616 x 3744. I loaded it into photoshop and then cropped it. When I then use the magnifier and zoom in three times, I prefer the look of the enlarged size, better visible detail and brings the subject closer. All I want to do is post the photo in another forum here, but displayed at the size it looks when I'm zoomed in. I've tried resizing by going to image size and then I changed the width and height to 200%. It did its thing and then displayed the image much larger, same as when I'm zoomed in. But after saving it and then uploading to postimage.org and then posting it in the testing forum, it's not displaying any larger than before I changed the image size. So what am I doing wrong?
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Nothing it's probably been compressed on postimage.org to save space.
 
mrbell1984 said:
Nothing it's probably been compressed on postimage.org to save space.
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Actually I should have said that even after increasing the size and even before uploading, when I open the new saved image from my desktop, it still needs to be zoomed in to see it the way I want to see it.
 
You probably need to crop it more. Even if the image is massive, most photo viewers will reduce the size to fit it onto your screen.
 
neodude said:
You probably need to crop it more. Even if the image is massive, most photo viewers will reduce the size to fit it onto your screen.
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You know what? You're right! I just cropped the hell out of it and that fixed it. Thanks. Shame though because I didn't want to have to crop it that much. But it looks ok.
 
Yep you definitely have everything out of focus except the middle so in my eye that makes you a pro already. I don't think there's much more to learn. GG.

I'm thinking about getting a DSLR so I'm going to secretly stalk your thread to see how it all works.
 
Efour said:
Yep you definitely have everything out of focus except the middle so in my eye that makes you a pro already. I don't think there's much more to learn. GG.

I'm thinking about getting a DSLR so I'm going to secretly stalk your thread to see how it all works.
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Lol, you're right, seems to be the thing to have a photo surrounded in mistiness. But yeah, get yourself a camera. It's good fun and quite difficult to be any good at this hobby, not to mention expensive!
 
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