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The image looks good when in jpg forma on my computer. The second I upload it to facebook it looks like crap. http://www.facebook.com/dubstepnet Anyone know how I can avoid this? I tried making a high res album and it still looks distorted.
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No - I'll tell you EXACTLY what this is. As a photographer, this is one issue that his pissed me off more than any other on FB. Facebook likes to "resize" and screw with your resolution when uploading them. It downsizes it, and therefore clarity is lost, DPI is lower, and anything you have that may have a really "crisp" or "sharp" edge to it in the photo...won't once it gets on Facebook. They had a resolution of 720 pixels, now it's up to 2048. Still, for a very hi-res image, it will look distorted and "dumbed-down" I like to call it. There are ways to "get around" this. It's one "extra step" I guess, but if you're really that concerned how it looks I FB, you could do it. This is basically taking that same image, running it through your image editor, and resizing the image for Facebook's maximum pixel resolution, and this should work. It has worked for me on a few occasions when I've done it. I don't do it anymore simply because it's a pain in the rear-end and I don't have the time to screw around with it. But, it can be done. |
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Looks fine to me. Don't worry about it too much. |
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It may just be your browser because there's nothing wrong with it on my end. |
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this is actually because facebook change the jpeg image quality to a lower setting, it has nothing to do with resolution or DPI. There is no way around it as the image quality setting is automatically changed when a photo is uploaded. Basically just use photos that look good at lower quality, which is basically images that do not have high frequency elements, such as drawn graphics / logos. |
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oh yeah another way is to use a natural image as the background, that is not a solid background but a photo, and place your logo over this. This will usually work because of the added complexity, the eye doesn't pick up the distortions introduced by the reduction in jpeg image quality. A white background with colour on it is very high frequency....anything high frequency gets quantized when the jpeg image quality setting is reduced. |
