Comments on: What You Need to Know About Uploading to MLSs

By: Chad J

Chad J — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:49:06 +0000

The MLS I output for is Rappatoni. I called the company and asked what the limitations were and what the system would do to images. They are the same as Dylans, 400px wide and no limitation on length. I have found the sweet spot by outputting from light room with longest edge 400px@72DPI w/sharpen for screen. It seems that since the image meets the 400px wide or less that the image mangler skips over doing anything to them and just pushes them through as-is. My images look better than any on the MLS. Clear, sharp and no compression BS. I use other photographers uploads as another way to differentiate myself from the other photog’s in my area.

By: Dylan Darling

Dylan Darling — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:56:50 +0000

Our Central Oregon MLS only allows 400 pixels wide, no larger than 3 MB. I’ve found that reducing the size in Photoshop to 400 pixels wide at 72 DPI works the best. I sharpen the photo, then use the “Save for web and device” option. I’ve tried other sizes, but this works the best.

By: Krynop

Krynop — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:08:22 +0000

I’ve stopped sharpening automatically because I find it increases the file size beyond our MLS limits. Our MLS is Paragon 4.0 (fnres.com). It messes with photos over 640 x 480 or larger than 32K.

It would be interesting if a matrix of MLS programs were assembled with some basic photo standard info like 1) file size, 2) dimensions, and 3) user tips. I can’t imagine that there are that many programs out there.

Larry, this might be a nice resource for this website to host.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:28:56 +0000

Can’t speak for MLS, but on most sites with auto photo resizing it’s best to upload actual size used at highest quality with sharpening, so no resizing done. For 3×2 images increase canvas size to make the height 4×3 (photoshop batch action) if that’s what the site uses which does leave a white border, but IMHOP better than a cropped or stretch photo

By: larry

larry — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:14:39 +0000

@Anonymous- Yes, you got it, that’s exactly the point! You can’t sharpen at final output size cause the MLS is going to do their “photo mangling” thing and re-compress even if you give them the final size!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:58:58 +0000

What about the golden rule of sharpening at final output size?

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