facebook ruining the quality of my images

boerewors · 24th of May 2012 (Thu)

i was just wondering if there are any specific ways to reduce the amount facebook degrades an image? my images get a soft grainy look to them when uploaded yet i have seen other photographers who manage to control the problem to a better degree than what i am able to do it. is there something i should know?

i tried uploading a reduced size of around 600 x 400 pixels saved from photoshop as jpeg quality set to 12. also tried clicking on the option to upload high quality and even tried larger sizes but i have had no luck. plase help. thanks

CAL Imagery · 24th of May 2012 (Thu)

I learned this past week they have a high quality feature for albums.

Northern Eagle · 24th of May 2012 (Thu)

I upload at image size 1024.. Seems to work in most cases. Sometimes for a good photo I will comment on the FB pic with a photobucket link to the same photo.. That way if the subject viewing the photo wants to see a slightly better IQ upload, they can do so by clicking my comment link.

tricky500 · 24th of May 2012 (Thu)

Before you downsize your image and save for facebook are you applying any sharpening?

boerewors · 24th of May 2012 (Thu)

attached is my facebook image and below is the image from flickr. its not a matter of sharpening

jwcdds · 24th of May 2012 (Thu)

haha.. the flickr looks better than fb. and yes.. fb compresses your images to crap. it was never meant to be storage for high quality pics. I'm sure the photos look fine when viewed from a cell phone.

tricky500 · 24th of May 2012 (Thu)

Flickr does apply sharpening to photo's that are uploaded. If I were intent on uploading photos to both I would sharpen photo's uploaded to facebook and do half of that amount or none at all to photo's going to flickr. And yes compression happens.

boerewors · 24th of May 2012 (Thu)

the facebook image is only 20Kb so theyre really compacting the hek out of the images.

cacawcacaw · 24th of May 2012 (Thu)

I'm surprised that Facebook hasn't started charging to display images at a higher quality. Everyone I know would pay a few bucks to make their families look better than their friends' families.

BirdBoy · 29th of May 2012 (Tue)

Set your image to 72 dpi and 1024 on the long side, they will look much nicer.

CAL Imagery · 30th of May 2012 (Wed)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cacawcacaw

I'm surprised that Facebook hasn't started charging to display images at a higher quality. Everyone I know would pay a few bucks to make their families look better than their friends' families.

They need to find a way to recoup the money they've lost one way or another.

mrbubbles · 30th of May 2012 (Wed)

I have noticed if you have a shot with high ISO...FB will bring out way more noise than there appears to be.

ChunkyDA · 1st of June 2012 (Fri)

I just loaded a 404k iPhone snap and FB compressed it to 139k. I usually put my camera pictures up at about 150k and FB compresses them to around 110k. FB must have some seriously large storage devices since a little while ago users were adding 2.5 billion pictures every month. probably more now.

BirdBoy · 2nd of June 2012 (Sat)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChunkyDA

FB must have some seriously large storage devices since a little while ago users were adding 2.5 billion pictures every month. probably more now.

They have so many supercomputers that they are hydro-cooled. Though that is the standard now with cloud computing and other large storage systems from silicon valley. Companies (I believe Google is the most recent; in the Dalles), have moved their storage facilities to the Columbia River for cooling.

RichSoansPhotos · 2nd of June 2012 (Sat)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cacawcacaw

I'm surprised that Facebook hasn't started charging to display images at a higher quality. Everyone I know would pay a few bucks to make their families look better than their friends' families.

Well they must be loaded to want to pay for that service

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boerewors Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: South African living in Indonesia Posts: 1,602 IMAGE EDITING OK	facebook ruining the quality of my images i was just wondering if there are any specific ways to reduce the amount facebook degrades an image? my images get a soft grainy look to them when uploaded yet i have seen other photographers who manage to control the problem to a better degree than what i am able to do it. is there something i should know? i tried uploading a reduced size of around 600 x 400 pixels saved from photoshop as jpeg quality set to 12. also tried clicking on the option to upload high quality and even tried larger sizes but i have had no luck. plase help. thanks __________________ The most important piece of gear you own, resides in your head and its called your brain.

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Northern Eagle Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 194	Re: facebook ruining the quality of my images I upload at image size 1024.. Seems to work in most cases. Sometimes for a good photo I will comment on the FB pic with a photobucket link to the same photo.. That way if the subject viewing the photo wants to see a slightly better IQ upload, they can do so by clicking my comment link. __________________ ᏂᎦᏓ ᎠᏂᏴᏫ ᏂᎨᎫᏓᎸᎾ ᎠᎴ ᎤᏂᏠᏱ ᎤᎾᏕᎿ ᏚᏳᎧᏛ ᎨᏒᎢ. ᎨᏥᏁᎳ ᎤᎾᏓᏅᏖᏗ ᎠᎴ ᎤᏃᏟᏍᏗ ᎠᎴ ᏌᏊ ᎨᏒ ᏧᏂᎸᏫᏍᏓᏁᏗ ᎠᎾᏟᏅᏢ ᎠᏓᏅᏙ ᎬᏗ.

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tricky500 Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Overland, MO. Posts: 423	Re: facebook ruining the quality of my images Before you downsize your image and save for facebook are you applying any sharpening? __________________ - Paul

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jwcdds Cream of the Crop Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Santa Monica, CA Posts: 10,306	Re: facebook ruining the quality of my images haha.. the flickr looks better than fb. and yes.. fb compresses your images to crap. it was never meant to be storage for high quality pics. I'm sure the photos look fine when viewed from a cell phone. __________________ Julian Gear/Feedbacks \| SmugMug Founding member and President of the OGUS Photo Club (Over-Geared, Under-Skilled)

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cacawcacaw Goldmember Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ventura, California Posts: 2,675 IMAGE EDITING OK	Re: facebook ruining the quality of my images I'm surprised that Facebook hasn't started charging to display images at a higher quality. Everyone I know would pay a few bucks to make their families look better than their friends' families. __________________ Fuji X10 for camera-processed high quality snapshots Canon 7D with Tokina 12-24mm, Canon 17-55mm, Sigma 30mm f/1.4, 85mm f/1.4, and 150-500mm, 580EX.

29th of May 2012 (Tue)	#10
BirdBoy Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 931	Re: facebook ruining the quality of my images Set your image to 72 dpi and 1024 on the long side, they will look much nicer.

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ChunkyDA Goldmember Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Emerald Coast, FL Posts: 2,774 IMAGE EDITING OK	Re: facebook ruining the quality of my images I just loaded a 404k iPhone snap and FB compressed it to 139k. I usually put my camera pictures up at about 150k and FB compresses them to around 110k. FB must have some seriously large storage devices since a little while ago users were adding 2.5 billion pictures every month. probably more now. __________________ Dave Support Search and Rescue, Get Lost Gear list and some feedback

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