Check your Facebook PNG files....

by warriorforumrocks

Posted: 11 years ago 5 replies

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Facebook seemed to drastically reduce the quality of uploaded JPEGs so I started uploading PNGs and everything looked great. Today my uploaded PNGs look terrible. Facebook seems to have reduced the number of colors they use. Does anyone else see a similar issue with the PNGs they've uploaded?

#check #facebook #files #png

Joe Thio 11 years ago

I noticed WordPress does something similar. You could try bumping the saturation in Photoshop to balance it out. Then when facebook washes it out, it will look more like it did originally. That was my strategy at least.
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warriorforumrocks 11 years ago

False alarm. My wireless ISP has forced everyone into a "web accelerator" which reduces the size of images.
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- bonvideo 11 years ago
  
  Yes, I was about to say that all the images we posted today for our customers looked great, for a few seconds I was also wondering, so I went and double checked some of our managed Fan Pages and they looked great so yes false alarm
  
  Originally Posted by warriorforumrocks
  
  False alarm. My wireless ISP has forced everyone into a "web accelerator" which reduces the size of images.
  
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lexilexi 11 years ago

Facebook displays a 403x403 section of an image in the timeline. So I always make my images with one or both sides 403 pixels and optimize them as jpegs in Photoshop. Doing this means the image is displayed without being "shrunk to fit" for timeline display, which can often be quite lossy, especially with text. Hope that helps!
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warriorforumrocks 11 years ago

lexilexi, don't you find that Facebook does some pretty heavy-handed recompression of uploaded JPGs? The only way around that I found was uploading PNGs instead.
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