So...I had a couple of nice images to post on my FB page. I u/l them from my HDD to a album and also tried posting them one by one to my profile. They look terrible on there, compared to posting them on a forum from my photobucket account. They also have that nasty black box around them. I know F5 temporarily gets rid of it. But is there a permanent way to remove it ? Also to show the the images at their best on FB ?
Facebook sucks for displaying the best quality of your images. It reduces it to 720x720pixels and seems to also reduce the quality. Your friends can download the higher res version you uploaded but you're stuck on how FB displays your image.
PS: It used to be 604x604 but changed when they started doing the "slideshow" look.
Chainshot wrote:
So...I had a couple of nice images to post on my FB page. I u/l them from my HDD to a album and also tried posting them one by one to my profile. They look terrible on there, compared to posting them on a forum from my photobucket account. They also have that nasty black box around them. I know F5 temporarily gets rid of it. But is there a permanent way to remove it ? Also to show the the images at their best on FB ?
Thanks.
no
it dumps the res down (and poorly at that) and recompresses and not just that it appears to do a major amount of chroma compression
I avoid Facebook's aggressive compression by uploading an image resized and compressed by flickr onto my Facebook account. It looks good whether uploading a 1024-pixel or 640-pixel image from flickr.
FB compression is heavy and really eats fine detail and color gradations. So bad for landscapes but okay for drunken mugs and burry iPhone snaps. As I recall, the old MySpace galleries were even worse. Nevertheless, the FB galleries are popular and most of your friends will not click on links to external sites, especially since they or friends are not tagged in them. External links might are be okay for your handful of artsy-fartsy FB friends.
Savas K wrote:
How is this a Canon mount SLR topic?
Yes sir, it's on the forum so it is. We shoot drunken mugs with our Canons and display them in FB! It's more on topic than the radioactive gear thread...
You could look into using a FBML app that you can download and add to your page. It allows you to have pages (like you would on a website) that are more "gallery specific" and the photos shown are hosted elsewhere, and are shown on FB in much better detail. Click on my "F" below to see what I mean.
Matt Philbin wrote:
You could look into using a FBML app that you can download and add to your page. It allows you to have pages (like you would on a website) that are more "gallery specific" and the photos shown are hosted elsewhere, and are shown on FB in much better detail. Click on my "F" below to see what I mean.
Savas K wrote:
How is this a Canon mount SLR topic?
A steady stream lately of topics posted in the wrong Forum...mostly in this Canon Forum, not noticing it in other forums as much. I posted threads on this FB poor display issue as well because it is a good topic, but none in the "Gear-talk/Canon-mount SLR" forum. Usually newer FM members...hopefully pointing it out will be good for the forums over time. The problem is that it dilutes the focus and purpose of the forum incorrectly posted to and devalues the correct forum since that forum will not get the question/issue/comment traffic.
Gochugogi wrote:
FB compression is heavy and really eats fine detail and color gradations. So bad for landscapes but okay for drunken mugs and burry iPhone snaps. As I recall, the old MySpace galleries were even worse. Nevertheless, the FB galleries are popular and most of your friends will not click on links to external sites, especially since they or friends are not tagged in them. External links might are be okay for your handful of artsy-fartsy FB friends.
That's right. That's why you have to be on FB these days even if you don't like it.
