Why do my pics appear oversharpened on a Non Mac Displays?

[dandaluzphotography]

Hey Guys,

I have noticed that when I finish processing a pic, it looks fine on my Mac display but when I view it on a laptop display, it looks very over sharpened. If I resize the image to say 1024x768 it looks fine but when I leave it at it's native size, it looks terrible when viewed to fit in the browser. If you click on the photo to get the actual size, it looks fine, but most people don't do this. On the mac display (iPad, iMac), it looks fine even when set to fit in the browser.

Is there a way to make the pic look ok, without resizing it? I'm using CS5.

Thanks,
Danny

 

[The_Traveler]

post a resized picture and a link to a full res picture

 

[dandaluzphotography]

Ok. I will do this when I get home. I don't have any images here.

Danny

 

[bazooka]

It sounds like the Mac browser is running some sort of anti-aliasing filter? What Windows browser are you using? You might try a different one like firefox to see if it improves.

 

[dandaluzphotography]

It sounds like the Mac browser is running some sort of anti-aliasing filter? What Windows browser are you using? You might try a different one like firefox to see if it improves.

I use Firefox. Hate IE, but it happens in both.

 

[KmH]

What type of display is the laptop? TN, PVA, or IPS?

 

[CForr]

Two things of the top of my head would be:

1) The software which is displaying the image - as has been mantioned some software does not smooth a photo before displaying it. This means that a multi-megapixel image displaying on a 1920x1080 screen (2MP) will skip many pixels as it renders, leaving the transition between tones and shapes artificially sharp.

2) Picking up off number one - if you are viewing the image on a screen which si significantly smaller that the screen on the Mac, the same effect will occur.

 

[Garbz]

Firefox, Chrome, and IE all use nearest neighbour filtering for resampling images. Can't speak for Safari. Post images to meet the right size requirements. If you need users to be able to zoom in, provide a link to a second larger image.

Browsers have historically handled this poorly.