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  • dlowwa
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    Originally posted by ajaaron View Post
    What should I alter to reduce the halos? - reduce the sharpening?

    Also, still not sure how to recognise the halos. Could you circle them perhaps so I know what Im looking for?
    Please see post #19:

    Originally posted by dlowwa View Post
    You can't. You can only avoid them in the first place.
    Originally posted by dlowwa View Post
    Look for dark areas of the sky next to lighter parts of the aircraft, and light areas next to darker parts.
    Reprocess the RAW file with all settings to zero, and compare. There should be no halos present. The most common culprits are either the shadow/highlight or clarity/vibrance settings, so if everything is set to zero, there should be no way to cause the halos.

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  • ajaaron
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    What should I alter to reduce the halos? - reduce the sharpening?

    Also, still not sure how to recognise the halos. Could you circle them perhaps so I know what Im looking for?

    Thanks for your patience.

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  • dlowwa
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    Originally posted by ajaaron View Post
    Ok - I hope I've refined this photo adequately - please confirm if now up to standard to upload. Thank you. Still working towards my first upload, would you believe!! lol

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    Pretty strong halos still, but otherwise ok. Noise and highlights are not an issue.

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  • Runway28L
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    A few things I'm noticing...

    1. Seeing haloing around the nose wheel and main landing gear.
    2. Lighting is very harsh. I would try to reduce the highlights a bit more.
    3. The background and the aircraft itself could use more noise reduction.

    A little iffy with photo quality but I'll let others comment on that.

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  • ajaaron
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    Ok - I hope I've refined this photo adequately - please confirm if now up to standard to upload. Thank you. Still working towards my first upload, would you believe!! lol

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  • kevincargo
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    Originally posted by ajaaron View Post
    I simply open my photo editing software, edit the RAW file, and convert/export as a .jpg (always at max quality) for upload. I also save the changes to the original RAW file.

    For any further editing, I simply go back to the RAW file and work off that.
    I ran into this issue a while back where I thought I was exporting in maximum quality but actually wasn't. If you're using Photoshop, try using the "Save for Web" feature rather than the Export feature. That seemed to fix some my compression issues when saving the final upload image.

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  • CrosswindPhoto
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    Sounds like you’re doing it right, try other photos and see if it is still compressed.

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  • ajaaron
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    Originally posted by CrosswindPhoto View Post
    Are you importing raw, and exporting jpeg?
    I simply open my photo editing software, edit the RAW file, and convert/export as a .jpg (always at max quality) for upload. I also save the changes to the original RAW file.

    For any further editing, I simply go back to the RAW file and work off that.

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  • CrosswindPhoto
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    Are you importing raw, and exporting jpeg?

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  • ajaaron
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    Originally posted by CrosswindPhoto View Post
    When u export make sure you're exporting at maximum quality.
    Tim

    Yes - I always do at max quality, hence Im a little perplexed.

    Which part of the photo looks like jpg compression? - Could it be that I've over sharpened the image, and that's made it grainy in the sky? - is grainyness sometimes considered jpg compression artefacts?

    Thanks.

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  • CrosswindPhoto
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    When u export make sure you're exporting at maximum quality.
    Tim

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  • ajaaron
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    How to avoid jpg compression artefacts?

    Just had this photo below rejected for "jpg compression artefacts".

    Ive only edited this directly from the original RAW file then converted it to jpg ONCE and uploaded that file.

    1. How can you tell there are jpg artefacts?
    2. How can I avoid this problem, given that I've only worked on the original RAW file, then converted to jpg.

    Many thanks,
    Arnold.

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  • dlowwa
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    Originally posted by ajaaron View Post
    ok - toned down the saturation and added a bit of brightness...

    Good to go?

    Thank you, dlowwa.

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    Some light halos now. I'd also raise it a bit in the frame to be sure.

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  • ajaaron
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    ok - toned down the saturation and added a bit of brightness...

    Good to go?

    Thank you, dlowwa.

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  • dlowwa
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    Originally posted by ajaaron View Post
    Ok - In general how do I go about removing halos?
    You can't. You can only avoid them in the first place.

    Originally posted by ajaaron View Post
    how do I detect them, as you do?
    Look for dark areas of the sky next to lighter parts of the aircraft, and light areas next to darker parts.

    Originally posted by ajaaron View Post
    Looking at this photo below, there's no dust spots, but are there halos in this photo?
    No halos, but slightly dark & oversaturated.

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