curious win10/psp x6 problem

[rpaterso47]

for many years i used psp 8 and then psp x on an win xp machine ... i had no problems with either version with anything i wanted to do nor did i have any problems uploading my pix to sites such as flickr. in 2013 i started using a win 8 (subsequently updated to 10) laptop and at that time i purchased psp x6. the most annoying issue i've faced with x6 is the way it interacts with flickr. for example, i've always worked with (canon) RAW/Tiff files ... with psp x I had no issues with Tiffs and flickr as it simply converted (on the fly i assume) my Tiffs to jpgs. With psp x6, however a Tiff file uploaded to flickr is heavily pixellated even though the original is fine (see attached). I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same or a similar issue?

[Ron P.]

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Your attached screenshots are so small I can't see much of anything with them. That said, I will say that it is always best practice to use JPEG for sharing to any social media sites. There are still a majority of people that do not have the 4K or 5K monitors, so the size does not need to be that large. Also JPEG has been the default standard for sharing via the internet for quite some time, I'm sure you already know this.

Some programs can do the proper conversion, where you don't end up with a severe quality hit when your image is also converted, resized, resampled, by the social media site. These sites can affect your image quality so it's best to match their recommendations. I too use Flicker, have for years. I've been using Lightroom to process and share them. LR does a fairly good job of conversion, and is considered one of the better in the industry. BUT, it and Flicker still will screw things up.

Have you tried just saving a JPEG to your hard drive, then uploading that using Flicker's uploader? I'd try that to see if you get better results. I know PSP has the ability to share directly from within, but sometimes it doesn't always work as it should.

I just used PSPx8 to process one of my Canon RAW (CR2) files. I used a couple of Curves adjustment layers then flattened it. From there I shared to Flicker. Mine did not show any degradation such as pixeling. I did note that RAW images processed in PSP are of course converted to they can be seen, to Corel's/PSP's working format of .pspimage. I'm guessing you must either convert your RAW file to TIFF before editing in PSP or save it to TIFF before sharing it. I've been shooting Canon for years, and as far as I know you shoot JPEG, RAW (CR2) or possibly both with some of the higher end models. What is your workflow?

Next do you use a compressed TIFF when uploading to Flicker? What is the largest size (pixels) presented for downloading your images on Flicker? This may provide a clue as to what's going on. It might be that the size uploaded is too small.