Help! Poor quality uploading photos

My camera is a 10 megapixel and photos turn out beautiful on the camera's screen. Once I upload the pics into iphoto, they look just as terrific. The PROBLEM is when I try to upload to an independent site such as Snapfish, Photobucket, Shutterfly, etc. All of my pics come out like I'm using a 3 megapixel camera or worse! They lose all their clarity, sharpness and beauty. If anyone can help me out, I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

catslittlebirds
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
How are you uploading? You're not rooting around in the iPhoto Library Folder, are you? Attaching files from the Data folder?
There are three ways (at least) to get files from the iPhoto Window.
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
To upload to MySpace or any site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. If you're using Gmail you can use THIS
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser. Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use THIS
Also, for 10.5 users: If you use the extended Open or Attach dialogue (with Column View) you can scroll to the bottom of the Shortcuts and find the Media browser there. Select any pic you want from there.
Regards
TD

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