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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RAH" data-source="post: 1324552" data-attributes="member: 5834">Roy, that is a pretty nice result after a lot of cropping. Actually, I am glad to see that such results are possible. You say that you are using a prime lens, and no doubt that contributes a lot. I am wondering, if you were using a zoom, would you "back off" from the max somewhat? I have been thinking lately that perhaps if I did, I might get better results. I sound like I am not at all happy with my results, which is not true, but I do see some softness on shots I take like your demos, and wonder if somewhat less than full zoom might help.OK_Scissortail, if you are just cropping an image, it absolutely should NOT be degraded in quality when you save it, no matter what image program you are using. You say, "If I decide to try and crop original photo in Photo Impact the same it botches the whole photo up, blurs the photo big time." I have never heard of an image program doing this (and Photo Impact is a pretty good image editor, certainly much better than Zoom Browser).Are you saving your images to jpg filetype? If so, I suggest you look at the "quality" setting of the jpg compression (might also be called "compression level" or some such term). If compression is set too high, it might be causing the degradation. If it is called something like "quality", set it high; if it is called something like "compression level," set it low.If you save to tif filetype, there if no chance of the image being degraded at all, and if it is, there must be something else happening, which is kind of hard to figure.If you are RESIZING your images (for example, Roy mentioned that after cropping to 980, he downsized to 800), this operation almost always blurs an image somewhat (no matter what image editor is used), and most folks do a sharpen after a downsize to restore it to its original sharpness.</blockquote>

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