Cover photo FGLED3 poster

[EmmaBrett]

Cover photo 1200x180px

200 / 0.2 / 0

[EmmaBrett]

Cover photo 1200x180

100 / 0.2 / 0

[Damien Symonds]

Again, these ones feel a bit jagged.  How did they look before the sharpening?

[EmmaBrett]

no sharpening

[Damien Symonds]

That looks jagged too.

How did you prepare these files at that size?  Did you use the Crop Tool?  What about the Image Size function?

[EmmaBrett]

The original photo is larger so I cropped it using the crop tool to 1200x180 at 72px/in

Image Size function says 1200x180 72

[Damien Symonds]

Hmmm ... weird.

Can you go to Photoshop's preferences, and in the "General" section tell me what the Image Interpolation is set to?

[EmmaBrett]

Bicubic Automatic

[Damien Symonds]

Yes, that should be fine.

This is so perplexing!  You seem to be doing everything right, I can't understand it.

Do you mind sending me the full-size master file, so I can try the crop for myself?

By the way ...

14 minutes ago, EmmaBrett said:

The original photo is larger so I cropped it using the crop tool to 1200x180 at 72px/in

Image Size function says 1200x180 72

This is just a typo, right?  It's actually 280, not 180.

[EmmaBrett]

yes 1200x280 file uploaded

[Damien Symonds]

Ah ha!  Found the culprit.

You have to make sure you flatten the layers BEFORE cropping.

[EmmaBrett]

ok thank you I will try again and repost.

[EmmaBrett]

Layers flattened first

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[Damien Symonds]

1 minute ago, EmmaBrett said:

Layers flattened first

100 / 0.2 / 0

 

No, that doesn't look like 0.2

[EmmaBrett]

honestly 0.2

[Damien Symonds]

Mine definitely didn't look like that at 0.2.  May I see the nonsharpened version?

[EmmaBrett]

1) duplicate file

2) flatten image

3) crop to dimensions

4) unsharpen

 

where am I going wrong?

[Damien Symonds]

I don't know, but it doesn't matter.  We fixed the jagged problem, and your 0.2 looks great.  Go with it.