lost quality after upload to facebook..?

Question

Hi so i was just doing some self portraits cuz i got a new suit and felt the need to take pictures..
i took them in RAW format and uploaded using bridge, then into camera RAW.
i then edited the photo and saved as a jpeg.
Then uploaded to facebook for my display picture, but the colour and overall quality has dropped very noticeably...

Can anyone tell me why this happened? and if i can fix it?

Answer 1

Facebook automatically downsizes all photographs posted.

FB is a social network not a gallery.



Try Photobucket or Flickr if you want your pictures displayed in better quality and resolution.

Answer 2

Facebook shrinks the photograph's size, so if your camera takes very High Quality photos, it is likely a lot of the detail has been lost because it can't handle the size of the image.



There's not too much you can do, but maybe if you resized the image yourself to a smaller image, it would look better?



Good luck!

Answer 3

Unfortunately you cannot fix this because facebook always reduces the quality of photographs because facebook photos are always a fixed size so there is no need to keep them high quality and it also saves memory if facebook reduces the resolution.

Answer 4

yes. the problem is visible in facebook when you upload photos and designs. gradients wont look smooth and photos lose quality. just try a higher resolution in JPEG and even if that doesn't work, select the 'High Quality' option when you upload images.

Answer 5

Ive tried everything, it think its facebook at this point. I take such a pretty picture and by the time i get it on facebook i look horrid. Ive tried every format and like literally everything.

Answer 6

yeah, i noticed that too, the only other option is to upload it to a different website and link it, only downside is you can't have it as your default picture.





it might look plain and muted to you because you have the original side by side, but to the majority of facebook users the picture will be just fine :)

Answer 7

What color space did you save your JPG file?



FB really shrink the file down to a tiny one, too.