Preparing and uploading photos to Facebook

Hen_Dawg · 16 Apr 2012 at 07:55

Hi,

I, like many of us, upload photos to FB. With the recent improvement to resolution and a full screen feature I'm wondering what tips people have to make the photos look at their best?
I'm asking as their guide suggests resizing to either 720 px, 960 px, 2048 px. Firstly, what does that mean? 2048 pixels on the longest edge I guess? Secondly, why does this matter, So they don't process it themselves thus losing quality?
I'm working in Lightroom and also wondering about the 'sharpen for screen' option when exporting. Should I use that when I've already sharpened manually?
Also, is there any other benefit using the inbuilt FB publish feature?

Any other tips or pointers would be great, Thanks

Stuff · 16 Apr 2012 at 15:26

I always resize to 960px on the longest side for FB these days. FB's automatic resizing murders quality and makes your photos look awful, unfortunately

Mr. Peri Peri · 16 Apr 2012 at 15:35

I uploaded a photo and it has ruined it, colours look awful and banding across the background etc.

Don't know why it does this!

PistolPete · 16 Apr 2012 at 15:37

Mr. Peri Peri said:
I uploaded a photo and it has ruined it, colours look awful and banding across the background etc.

Don't know why it does this!

^^^

Mr. Peri Peri · 16 Apr 2012 at 16:35

How can anyone make a photo page and display their work and market themselves on facebook as a photographer when it annihilates your images

Hen_Dawg · 16 Apr 2012 at 16:46

Mr. Peri Peri said:
How can anyone make a photo page and display their work and market themselves on facebook as a photographer when it annihilates your images

Well since last month it seems to have improved a lot, but you have to click full-screen to see best effect. Plus full screen doesn't work in IE

JRJ · 3 Jun 2013 at 11:14

Ill drag this message back from the depths instead of starting a new topic.

Whats best with Facebook these days? uploaded a tease shot for a couple and it looks washed out and and low quality.

Edit: This is just for a couple of shots, album will be on my website.

Nexus · 3 Jun 2013 at 20:42

You don't seem to have posted anything, but overall Facebook's automation and resizing isn't got to change your images that drastically. Are you sure you are using the correct colourspace?

Mp4 · 4 Jun 2013 at 06:27

I tend to 800x600 in photoshop with copyright spam so looks shoddy anyway before it goes on FB.

I posted a photo on a while back on FB (didnt add watermarks) and went to work, and someone said they had download it off facebook and asked if they could use it for canvas! I guess they asked, but i did charge for the image.

Hen_Dawg · 8 Jun 2013 at 06:24

As I don't want to put up 2048px images. When exporting from Lightroom I basically resize long edge to 960px, 100% jpeg quality.
http://connywallstrom.com/facebook-quality/

Razor-BladE · 8 Jun 2013 at 10:46

I usually resize so that long edge is 1024px, jpeg 100% sharpen high.

JRJ · 8 Jun 2013 at 10:59

Razor-BladE said:
I usually resize so that long edge is 1024px, jpeg 100% sharpen high.

This is my usual routine but recent uploads have looked washed out and compressed, I'll try as Hen_dawg as said and see if the slighlty smaller file works.

Cheers

pryere · 8 Jun 2013 at 13:41

People still use Facebook?!

DB_SamX · 8 Jun 2013 at 14:40

Yes, around 1.11 billion users. Where have you been?

I am not too fussed about Facebook uploads despite the rubbish quality; I have Flickr for better ones. Besides I don't think anyone would use it exclusively to promote themselves.