Image Sharpness (1 Viewer)

I have a question about different image viewing programs. When I look at my pictures in Digital Photo Professional, in RAW, they look nice and sharp. When I convert them to jpegs and look at them in my picture library, the look nice and sharp. But when I open them in Microsoft Office Picture Manager, they look out of focus, and when I post Microsoft office picture manager edited pictures here, they look out of focus. If you go to my gallery, you'll find a picture of a song sparrow-the first one in my gallery. When I cropped it in Microsoft Office Picture manager (Henceforth called MOPM), and opened it in my picture library, it looked sharp. However, when I resized the cropped picture to post in the gallery, it looked out of focus. Is this something to do with MOPM, or just resizing. But if It's just resizing, why do all my pictures look bad in MOPM? Sorry if this isn't very coherent!

Edit: Also, shouldn't smaller images look sharper? At least that's what it seems like to me, I guess because there's less detail and the pixels are more concentrated? (If That's wrong, please ignore it.)

Never used MOPM, but it sounds as if you may have a very harsh compression setting when saving as jpeg.

I see this was taken at 1/50 sec with your lens at the long end - maybe the slow shutter speed could explain the lack of sharpness.
BTW if you sharpen before downsizing then you often need to sharpen a little more after downsizing.

Roy C - The thing is, It was sharp before I resized it, so I don't think it was a problem with my camera. I guess I might need to invest in some better editing software at some point.

Resizing and resampling can end in soft photos with some poor software - it could be that it's blurring the photo to remove jaggies and artifacts caused by the resizing. I have to say that Microsoft Office is definitely the last program I'd use for image editing - why do you use that, can't you edit them and resize in DPP?

Can you crop and resize in DPP? So far all I know how to do in that is sharpen/brightness/contrast/ect.

Cardamom Pod said:

Can you crop and resize in DPP? So far all I know how to do in that is sharpen/brightness/contrast/ect.

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Look under the tools menu, it's called a 'trimming tool'.

HokkaidoStu said:

Look under the tools menu, it's called a 'trimming tool'.

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Thanks! I found it, and now I might not have to use MOPM.