Picture quality on facebook

Facebook is appalling for image quality. Always has been, and there's nothing you can do about it other than link to somewhere else. Really annoying because i like to share photos with friends after holidays, and while they can download mine at full quality, i can only see their ~600px wide images on Facebook - and when you ask them to email them, they say "why, they're already on Facebook". Grrr!

I noe tend to load one or two onto Facebook, but then put a link to my proper gallery for the rest. Means people who use Facebook still notice something new, but get to see nice quality ones elsewhere.

David
 
Someone once asked me if my uploaded facebook pictures were off my mobile phone :eek: I didn't have the time to explain or want to tell them they were taken with a £1k+ DSLR camera :naughty:
I got to admit though i don't know what their servers do to 'em, maybe strip off a few hundred thousand kbytes !
 
I've faced this battle many a time.

saving as images with small file sizes, over sharpening etc all return the same compressed to hell results even if you select the hi res option at upload.

If you find the secret ingredient needed to make FB pics look as sharp as they really are, let me know it.
 
Hmm okay - thanks for the replies though guys. Think I'll stick to giving an external link.
 
Courious rexture in the sky, I don't get that on my facebook images, are you letting FB resize them ?
Wayne
 
I never bother actually uploading to FB when you can simply post a link to where you host your pics (in my case pbase). It still shows a thumbnail, but at least clicking on that gives decent quality rather than just loading an FB hosted pic.

FB is basically aimed at people who post pics of themselves ****ed :D
 
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Ive never had problems with photos on facebook. All the photos ive placed on here have been links from facebook and i think they all look great still.
 
Snipet said:
Ive never had problems with photos on facebook. All the photos ive placed on here have been links from facebook and i think they all look great still.
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Even on my small (10") screen a Facebook photo looks terrible fullscreen. Even the absolute best quality photo anywhere on facebook is limited to ~600px wide, which is way smaller than even the worst monitors there days - even most smartphones have higher than that resolution now! The result is a lack of detail, impossile to tell if the photo is sharp, and just generally pixellated images. They'll look ok on the facebook website, but that's because it deliberately includes so much unnecessary junk around the image that it can't be shown bigger than the ~600px wide limit anyway - you just get a small picture in the middle of the screen.

David
 
I tend to find sharpening the pic more than you normally would, helps with the quality on facebook. But still a long way off flick-r quality.
 
For anyone who wants to see a direct comparison, here are two identical images. First is from my own hosting, second is from facebook, just slightly different sizes. (The same 800px file was uploaded to both, facebook resized to 719px.)


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You want to take care of the resizing yourself, rather than letting facebook do it on upload to get the best out of it, but it still isn't perfect.
 
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