Damien Symonds

This is not a new problem. Chrome has always been shit. I'm not sure why you haven't noticed it before? Some housekeeping - are you happy with your monitor calibration? Does Photoshop match your pro lab prints?

Yep, great. I can see the box is checked, so that's good. Let me know how Firefox goes. I can see in your profile that you use a laptop, and calibrate with an X-Rite. Do you only use the laptop screen, or do you also have a desktop screen plugged into it?

The two screenshots I posted there are from the "Save As" and "Save for web and devices" windows in Photoshop. How do you save your photos for web?

Go to the Window menu and open the History panel. It gives you your last few steps, so you can go back. You should have been doing the same in Elements, by the way. In Elements, it's called the "Undo History" panel.

When you say online, is it everywhere? In particular, how do they look on Facebook? When you're saving for web, have you double-checked that you're embedding the profile? I can see that you're using Chrome, which is part of the problem for sure. Firefox is the only browser to use.

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2013/09/grabbing-700x700px-100-crop.html

The link to instructions is in that post.

https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/131-read-this-first-posting-guidelines/

It's a tricky tool all right, but yeah, I think this looks fine.

Well, can't you use Edit>Transform>Distort, and pull up the bottom right corner?

It's great!

Come on, you HAVE to get yourself a calibrator. If you spend money on a screen before a calibrator I'm going to so damn angry.

This (the bolded part) is a BIG problem. Coupled with this ... ... I am SO damn worried right now. A colourful screen is not necessarily a good thing. In fact, a lot of times it's a very bad thing. Have you compared your two screens to pro lab prints?

Phew! *wipes brow* You need to look up the specs of your laptop's graphics card, to see what is the highest resolution monitor it can support. I've no particular reason to think it would have any problems, but it sure would be a nasty shock to buy a new super-duper-high resolution screen then find out your lappy couldn't handle it. Unfortunately (to preempt your next question) I don't know how you'd find that out. Google, I guess. No, we can't necessarily assume that. If your laptop's graphics card is good enough, it'll support higher resolutions than the native monitor, I think. But yeah, check.

Never ever ever ever mirror. Under any circumstances. You're not mirroring in your current setup, are you?

Well duh. You're cropping to a size of two and a half pixels by three and a half pixels. Plus you've got "Delete Cropped Pixels" unchecked. This is VERY bad. That must always be checked.

You missed a bit of wall, though, under the thigh and in the elbow gap of the lady on the left.

Gosh Sue, this looks really impressive. Well done.

https://www.facebook.com/damien.photoshop/photos/a.183682458346830.39021.183680248347051/258337507547991/?type=3&theater

In answer to your question, yes, but to a VERY limited degree.

Let's see some of the photos.

It worries me that you're shooting jpeg. You're limiting yourself so much. Don't do that.

Three good ones is fine. Don't include this one.

Yeah, ouch, that motion blur Is this the best and only one you have?

Very stupid, yes. The inch figure is completely meaningless. Only the pixel dimensions matter, and you'll find they are exactly the same. https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_resolution.html