Flickr rubbish IQ

Hi,
Has anybody suffered a knock in image IQ since Flickr has changed its provider. I'm getting to the point where I don't want to post any photos because I'm chuffed with them on my hard drive, and then embarrassed by them on my Flickr.

It's certainly not archival quality, but at typical sizes for web viewing I think that it is sufficient, personally.

Hi Albert,
I concede that an image will lose some IQ whilst uploading, but, the difference recently is huge compared to what is was before Flickr changed its provider. By the lack of replies then I seem to be the only one having issues

Flickr IQ is poor, but it is free so i do not expect too much. What has helped for me is to publish the photo for the web using photoshop by doing all my downsizing (to 1024 in photoshop) then converting over to sRGB colorspace. Flickr downsizes and sharpens automatically, but their downsize engine is a one size fits all. If you downsizing manually in photoshop, you can adjust the amount of sharpening to the image size.

If people think Flickr degrades photo quality, use Facebook! They over sharpen everything to the point of absurdity! I like Flickr to be honest.

Well I've happily used Flickr now for years, BUT, since they changed providers recently, the gap between what I downsize my pics to ( 1024 longest ) on my hard drive, and what they appear like on Flickr is huge.......... Am I the only one who is seeing the difference since the changeover ??

I don't do facebook - too old for that

I upload to flickr at 2048 pixels and the automatic resizing they do makes the 1024 or 800 pixels sizes look very good to my eyes. I have not noticed any changes in quality, I've been doing it this way for years.

Seconded. IQ on Flickr is great and far superior to FB. I pay for Flickr Pro, though. $25 a year for unlimited space? It was a no-brainer for me.

h14nha wrote in post #14714921
Hi Albert,
I concede that an image will lose some IQ whilst uploading, but, the difference recently is huge compared to what is was before Flickr changed its provider. By the lack of replies then I seem to be the only one having issues

No, it isn't just you. I just noticed it, horribly, in the last week; I didn't realize anything had changed. But yes, I definitely see a massive drop in IQ on my posted shots now.

Can you post some before and afters?

I've noticed a downgrade in quality also. I'm a paying Pro FlickR user, too. My astro shots look much better on local drive. All the stars get way oversharpened by FlickR.

I'm uploading (updating) some photos now. I'll have a look.

BobbyMartin wrote in post #14721861
Seconded. IQ on Flickr is great and far superior to FB. I pay for Flickr Pro, though. $25 a year for unlimited space? It was a no-brainer for me.

No brainer is right.

Honestly have zero complaints. Is it perfect? No... what other option is better and the same reasonable pricing? Facebook is terrible. Photobucket is terrible. All the other ones I have tried are terrible. It also offers a pretty darns straight forward uploader and organization online. Easy to share images as well.

I think I might notice some degradation in my resized photos, but not the original size uploaded. I don't know if I see a difference from before, though. Maybe you've got a better, or more trained eye than I do.

It's odd; it's the linked, re-sized image that is softened/blurred. You can see it by linking to the 1024 sized image on the forum, and then open the actual, Flickr image in another tab. Looking at them both (both 1024), you can see that the linked one is fuzzier than the file directly on the Flickr site.

I've been a Flickr Pro user for over 4 years and haven't ever seen this happen before this last week.