Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Hi Damien I haven't sharpened for Facebook before can you help me learn how to do this correctly. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Hi Falon, have you browsed these? https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.349114581815415&type=1 I hope those will give you a basis for your own testing, and come up with what works best for your photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 So Damien I have had a bit of a look on some other threads. Can I just get you to check I'm doing this right. Flattened image selected crop tool Width at 960px length and resolution blank then cropped then I sharpened to 150-0.3-0 I found the other setting of 500-0.2-0 wasn't strong enough Then i went to save for web and selected png-24 Is this correct sorry was a little lost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 After you saved the PNG, what was the resultant file size? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Is this correct 2.6? Is that too big? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Yes, it is. Facebook only honours PNG files that are under 1 megabyte. Anything larger than that, it automatically converts it to a Jpeg file, and NOT kindly. It seems to apply nasty compression to it. Therefore, you're much better to save it as a Jpeg file yourself, if you see that your PNG is going to be over 1MB. When saving Jpegs for Facebook, I use 90 on the 0-100 quality scale, or 11 on the 0-12 scale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 ok great thank you will do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Do i just go to save as or would i still go through the save for web I've never used the save for web before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Also I have applied this to one of my images and it looks really blotchy when opened up on my mac screen but the other image looks amazing why is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 21 minutes ago, Falon said: Do i just go to save as or would i still go through the save for web I've never used the save for web before It makes absolutely no difference to the resultant file. It's simply a matter of your workflow preference. 9 minutes ago, Falon said: Also I have applied this to one of my images and it looks really blotchy when opened up on my mac screen but the other image looks amazing why is this? In what program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) preview app on my mac the other ones look fine in the same program Edited August 3, 2017 by Falon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 And? If you open it in Photoshop? Same thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 no photoshop it looks fine viewed at 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Ok, can you post it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Does it look ok to you here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 yes looks fine on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Ok ... so it's not a problem then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 No not a problem thank you for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Damien i sent this one through messenger on fb and it looks terrible she wanted to see them through that first. Is that why it would look horrible in msger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 Sorry its all good its the fb business app doing something weird. When I go into Facebook via the safari app on my phone, then to my business page messages they look fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 Damien is it normal for fb images to look pixelated when zoomed in on once sharpened like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Zoomed in how far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falon Posted August 16, 2017 Author Share Posted August 16, 2017 not far at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Sorry, I don't understand the question. In what program are you viewing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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