Blotchy Images on Export

[pdxrjt]

Hi and TIA for any help. I am working on a holiday card. I created a blank red space. Then I took a photo and put it roughly in the center of the red space, then added text. Saved it as a PSP image. Both the photo and the PSP file look fine in PSP. However, when I collapse the PSP file in a jpeg, it gets all splotchy etc. (See attachment of a detail of the files.) Any ideas on how to fix it are welcome. I have already tried turning off color management in PSP but it did not change the jpeg export.

[LeviFiction]

I can't be sure without seeing your settings, but it looks like you're saving with a very high compression setting.

The higher the compression the more data is lost. JPEG is a lossy file format after all. When you do Save AS for jpeg you'll want to have a low compression rating (20 or lower, just make sure it's set toward "Best Quality"). It'll be a slider at the bottom of the dialog. If you don't see a compression slider click on the "options" button under the Help button on the save as dialog.

[pdxrjt]

Well DUH! Can't believe I missed that. I never mess with quality settings and always leave them all the way up for projects I will print.....don't know what happened but it was all the way down to total compression. As I don't mess with that setting, I didn't even check it out. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[rondo]

Easy to forget to use the Save As to keep getting the compression you want- unless they fixed it in 2018, choosing just Save will use the default which is low- made the mistake last week.

[pdxrjt]

As I have (more or less) migrated to another program for the majority of my "bread and butter" editing, this is the first time I used the new PSP. I think it had a super high compression setting by default. So that is changed now! Like I said, never occurred to me.