I will post my before and after when I 'next fire up QU' but the tiff will be many megs. Will see about posting on Zenfolio.
Out for the rest of day on orders of SWMBO
Jeff,
Perhaps you can tell SWMBO (She who must be obeyed) that you are "knackered" and not have to go?
Seriously, getting back to the "degrading" question.
I have some settings to offer you.
I just did some experiments and posting is difficult because in order to fit the minuscule allowance of file size, I have to scrunch the screen snap.
The biggest difference in what seems to be quality degradation but is actually less sharpening, is the setting you choose in the Anti-Aliasing setting.
If you set that to low.... you are "golden"
Now, you can do 90% or 50% quality and can barely see the difference.
Terry touched on this earlier when he mentioned roof lines and certain line patterns that require a higher setting of Anti aliasing.
Set yours to LOW.
Snap 081 shows the setting I was talking about.
Snap 077 shows a Quality setting of 25% (Pretty darn low and should compromise the quality
Snap 082 shows a Quality setting of 90%, and finally
Snap 078 is the Original Raw.
This shot is a beautiful image shot by Terry, so sharp and perfect that I want to smell the print.
What I am showing you is there is no degrading to be seen at all when downsizing using 90%, and even 25% (which is really an emergency extreme) is tolerable.
If you get poor results at your end, then you need to send me or/and Terry your original.
You have done it before... using WETRANSFER or YOUSENDIT, both free!
Fred