My camera has several different resolution and quality settings with "best" of course being the best. But no matter which setting I choose, the pictures look really good until I reduce them in Microsoft Photo Editor to the size required for posting here. Then they start to look wavey and blurred. I see crystal clear pics here and even multiple pics in the same post that are larger than mine. What am I doing wrong?

The pictures you are putting in the forum are attachments, which are limited to only 64 Kb so you have to may shrink them a lot, or compress them too much. If you put the pics on your own server (if you have one), and then use a reference to it in your post (use IMG button) it will show up, and you can use any size pic you like, and multiple pics per post.

Also, Microsoft Photo editor sounds quite crap, many people use Paint Shop Pro', a fairly professional but simple to use package for photo editing etc.
Can you change the compression level in Photo Editor? When you save, you may have an Options button, then you can reduce the compression.

Your pics seem to shrink rather poorly - this is definitely Photo Editor's problem. Get paint shop pro, you could even pay for it after 30 days or whenever, much simpler to obtain someone else's license code and use that instead


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I concur. Get Paint Shop Pro. It is excellent for editing photographs. The distortion that you are getting is likely due to the aspect ratio being lost in the mix somewhere. PSP is easier to work with when resizing pictures. I've taken rather sizeable pictures and reduced them to very tiny thumbnails with no change in clarity, beyond small details that just simply disappear altogether.

Who markets Paint Shop Pro?

A company called JASC (I forget what the acronym stands for). I used to use it a long time ago when it was shareware, I don't know if they still offer paint shop pro free for evaluation purposes.

-anthony

Microsoft Photo editor:

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THANKS Y'ALL. .!! The difference is obvious.

I use Photo Shop with good results.......
William Rogers.......