Improve Photo Quality in Facebook?

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I'm sure quite a few of you here use facebook so I thought it would be best to ask this here. Basically I've always wanted to know if theres a way to improve the quality of the images on facebook. It seems that FB automatically reduces the quality (and size) of the images that you upload on to FB by quite a bit and its getting very annoying as it ruins the photos completely.

Any ideas?
 
But what sort of photos are we talking about here?

If its pics of you ****ed up on a night out, it shouldnt matter. If they are pics of your best work, what the hell are you doing putting them on FB? :D
 
Why do you want to improve the quality? Surely if any of your mates want to see your work, you could link them to your FlickR or summat??? My profile is private, so nobody else would be able to see them (given some of the photos on there of me, with good reason!! :D)
 
Not everyone likes FlickR though... I use facebook for a small portfolio because some people cant be bothered to go to my site.

I find uploading pictures about 500px on the longest side is the best really. I havent noticed any compression or loss of quality on them.
 
Unfortunately it's difficult to get good-looking photos on FB because of the 'optimisation' it applies when you upload photos (rough translation - resizing & horrible oversharpening)
 
Betty said:
But what sort of photos are we talking about here?
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:thinking: a photo is a photo? not sure how this affects image quality?

Betty said:
If its pics of you ****ed up on a night out, it shouldnt matter. If they are pics of your best work, what the hell are you doing putting them on FB? :D
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Well, each to their own and all that... not really debating whether we should or shouldn't be uploading our best work on FB. I just want to know if theres a way to improve the image quality...
 
Given the T&Cs when uploading a picture to Facebook, that's the last place I'd want to display my pictures irrespective of the final quality.

http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

When you post User Content to the Site, you authorise and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on the Site. By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide licence (with the right to sublicence) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorise sublicences of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the licence granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content. Facebook does not assert any ownership over your User Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms, you retain full ownership of all of your User Content and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your User Content.
 
I link my flickr account to facebook, there's a link in your account in flickr to do it. It means that when you upload to flickr it shows in your profile on facebook.

I absolutely hate facebook's picture software, it's the worst on the net.
 
Dave W said:
I link my flickr account to facebook, there's a link in your account in flickr to do it. It means that when you upload to flickr it shows in your profile on facebook.

I absolutely hate facebook's picture software, it's the worst on the net.
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Me too and it seems photobucket is also dropping the quality on shots , if i upload it sharp i want it to say sharp! :bang::bang:

Yes its set in options under 1mb and yes its under 1mb
 
Dave W said:
I link my flickr account to facebook, there's a link in your account in flickr to do it. It means that when you upload to flickr it shows in your profile on facebook.

I absolutely hate facebook's picture software, it's the worst on the net.
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I have a flickr account but didn't know about this feature. Is it any good? Does it display the photos like it does in FB? I.e. Easy to use and good image quality?
 
SuperCNJ said:
I have a flickr account but didn't know about this feature. Is it any good? Does it display the photos like it does in FB? I.e. Easy to use and good image quality?
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It's sadly little more than a link to flickr that shows a tiny thumbnail of the shots in your newsfeed whenever you upload new photos.

Full integration would be nice cos flickr wipes the floor with facebook for photos.
 
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