Hello sifus! I know that facebook is not a good platform to share your dslr photo (fb server will compress the jpeg till almost 80%!), but its the only social media that im active at. Im quite disappointed with the image quality after uploaded some pictures into my facebook album. Is there any setting to get highest quality image when u exporting image from lightroom?? I heard that put long edge to 2048px will give highest quality when upload to facebook? Any tips to share?

thanks sifus!

From my experience, what Facebook does is that it makes your photos loose out in sharpness more than anything else.

I upload 900px width maximum BUT what I do before I upload is I do a "Smart Sharpen" on photoshop.

Don't over do it though, just have it sufficient to cater for the loss in sharpness as Facebook re-processes it.

hi there! thanks for your response. I did output sharpening to standard (medium) when exporting from lightroom, what happened is that when facebook compress the image, the sharpening effect produce more grains/noise and jpeg artifact. Maybe i need to change to low output sharpening or just make it "none"

I use Smart Sharpen at 1px. Don't over do it.

I also upload photos to Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.8...89738842&type=3

Photo taken with HTC One M8. Most of the photos I didn't apply sharpen. As long as I can see details on the hair, i think it's good enough.

Uploaded resolution was 500px x 750px

New photography direction? Shooting mei meis I mean.

facebook will mess up the colors some time, especially red color. for sharpness it's still ok for me, since i upload my picture in 2000px width and no issues so far.

I remember reading some articles and the author asked us to save in web format. But i cant recall it.

PNG format ?

so here's the example from my upload.

https://scontent-b-kul.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...055034026_o.jpg

pretty close to the original image from computer i would say

(you can see the clipping on the red channel though)

This post has been edited by mingyuyu: Jun 12 2014, 12:36 AM

I tend to save to progressive JPG format at 800px width max, 72dpi, at 70-75% quality to keep file sizes below 100K.

As I use them for the web, I tend to stick to this when exporting to FB too.

FB makes things lossy even when High Quality is checked.