Best File format for lossless Quality for Facebook ?

jasonsony735

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What is the best file format to stop FACEBOOK compressing my images and making them look average ? I get 90% of my work from the website so its important that the images look the best.


what is currently the best way to showcase my images on Facebook guys ? Cheers
 
Nothing will stop them compressing them, if you want full quality you'll need to host them elsewhere.
 
Yep, I've tried a few different methods, it just doesn't work and with good reason - they have to be able to deal with the millions of photos being uploaded every day.
 
I have flicker account but when I share from there is comes up on Facebook small ! is there anyway to make it show it bigger , where my clients don't have to move from the page and go on to flicker to view the image.
 
Don't believe so. Facebook compress the pants off everything you upload. It hurts a little when I get a nice picture of my niece - sure, a nice picture is a nice picture, but some dynamics and detail are lost, which take a lot of the shine off.
 
As above, tried many methods including Flickr which used to work now annoyingly they put a stop to it. If I was pro, I wouldn't be using FB to showcase all my work personally, I'd use it as somewhere to promote your main site (the odd photo here and there to entice them in) where you can control image quality.
 
jasonsony735 said:
What is the best file format to stop FACEBOOK compressing my images and making them look average ? I get 90% of my work from the website so its important that the images look the best.


what is currently the best way to showcase my images on Facebook guys ? Cheers
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What's your business and have any of your customers complained about the quality on Facebook? It is easy as a photographer to get hung up on quality issues like this when in reality most of your clients will never know or care!
 
Access Facebook with a better quality device/screen if you are showing your work to clients etc. For example using a QUHD OLED screen brings a bit of the shine back.
 
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Access Facebook with a better quality device/screen if you are showing your work to clients etc. For example using a QUHD OLED screen brings a bit of the shine back.
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that's not gonna fix the image quality. facebook has their own compression to minimize storage space, and more often than not, having a better screen just shows the image's flaws even more. best to host the images elsewhere (that doesn't compress uploads) and link it to them.
 
Well it certainly makes a difference.look at the reasons a person might choose a 1080 OLED over a standard 4k or even a nano crystal,quantum dot, display. I personally don't have too much of an issue with image quality on Facebook apart from a little lack of luster/smidgen of detail when accessing from a pc. Viewing the same work on a even higher resoution/quality screen would be like going from matt to glossy paper from my experience, using the example illustrated above. By all means host them somewhere else if you can but bear in mind the OP hasn't given any information on the kind of tech he or she is using to view the work from or to display to others.
 
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Images look **** on every screen I've used on FB and I use a 5k iMac mostly.

Hate using FB to show off work.
 
Maybe they don't look like how you would like them to look but I wouldn't go as far as to say they look like ****. Then again I'm using a OLED. It's not just Facebook : :D

Edit: I'm no expert on the 5k Retina display but I do know enough to point out image quality isn't entirely dependent on pixel count alone. In fact one criticism I came across regarding the retina display was:
Next to the pure black of the glassy display surround, you can tell the iMac with Retina 27in screen is at heart still a normal IPS LCD
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jasonsony735 said:
No one's said anything but obviously we know right away it could look better lol and it drives me mad.
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Classic photographers problem you are looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist if your clients don't care than move on spend the time doing something that could earn you money not stress lines!
 
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