Hi,

Recently I've noticed that some images on the net are very sharp while mine seem to be lacking that "fizz" I see on some portfolio sites.

It seems to me that Photoshop looses sharpness when you resize so I have come up with a process to resize and sharpen for the web.

I've saved them as actions that you can download here:

http://johnloydall.co.uk/actions/

There's 2 in there - both resize to 800px but one is for portrait and the other is for landscape

It assumes you start with a fairly big file though - certainly over 2500 pixels wide or high.

The process applies an unsharp mask a few times while it resizes (which it does in steps).

If you start with a small image, this will look horrible, but for images straight out of my 5D Mark II I think it's ok.

If any of you want to give it a try I'd be interested to hear what you think.

Cheers.