How to Edit in Ps and Upload High Quality Pictures on Facebook Page
THEORY
Why does Facebook ruin my pictures?
People ofttimes complain that their photos wait worse after uploading to Facebook and they would be right. Colours tin can seem less impressive, it looks like you've lost detail in the picture and areas appear blocky but there are means to optimise your files prior to uploading so that you can minimise the deposition and go on them looking as good as Facebook will let you.
There are three main reasons your images may look worse after uploading to Facebook; incorrect colour infinite, incorrect resolution and compression.
1. Colour Space
Colour spaces are difficult to wrap your head around when first starting out but do some research and you should go on tiptop of it in no fourth dimension. I won't get into the complexities of color space here but basically the effect may exist that you are shooting & editing in the "Adobe RGB 1998" color infinite (or some version other version) and images online are displayed in an sRGB colour infinite. Shooting and editing in Adobe RGB 1998 is a skilful thing just when you come to upload your images to Facebook they volition be converted to some version of the sRGB colour infinite. You accept no control over how the colours are converted and you might find that the images you uploaded are less saturated or have slightly different hues than the pic you started with. To fix this you lot need to convert the colour space yourself either in Lightroom or Photoshop, before uploading.
2. Resolution
Facebook allows you to upload images of whatever size simply has built in algorithms to automatically resize the image down to their maximum dimension of 2048px (longest side). This algorithm is not every bit squeamish as if you were to resize the photo yourself in either Photoshop or Lightroom and therefore volition make your photo look worse when complete and perhaps lose detail and sharpness. The solution is simple, resize the motion picture before uploading to Facebook, it may even save you some upload time!
3. Compression
Facebook will automatically compress the images you upload to salvage space on their servers. The compression is somewhere equivalent to saving a JPG with the quality gear up to between vii & 8. You can't change this, all you tin do is upload a JPG at the full quality of 12 to minimise the number of times your image is compressed, or utilise an uncompressed PNG for an slightly better issue. If you compress your epitome to say a JPG 9 when you save it and then when you upload, Facebook recompresses your paradigm to whatsoever it likes, you lot accept now compressed the image twice, degrading the quality each time! Call back of it like a photocopy, every time you make a copy of a re-create it gets slightly worse. This is the same when saving compressed images (fifty-fifty at JPG 12). The solution is to work in a lossless format, such as PSD or TIFF (no compression) and just salvage a JPG or PNG once, at the end of your process, with the maximum quality setting possible.
Practice
EXPORTING DIRECTLY FROM LIGHTROOM
Lightroom makes it very easy to catechumen profiles and resize the image, all from the export options.
ane. With your photo/s selected, get up to File -> Export (Ctrl + Shift + E)
two. Go down to "File Settings" and select Paradigm Format: JPEG Colour Space: sRGB and Quality 100 as shown in the flick below.
three. Under "Image Sizing" check the box that says "Resize to Fit" and select "Longest Edge" and type in "2048" "pixels" as the measurement with a resolution of "72" "pixels per inch". Y'all can select "Don't Overstate" to make sure that any images smaller than this size are non stretched to fit this dimension.
iv. Hit export and you are done!
That should be like shooting fish in a barrel enough but only incase here are some Lightroom Presets for exporting to unlike mediums. Please e-mail me if you accept any other mediums y'all would similar added. Just unzip and copy the preset files to your Lightroom -> Export Presets -> User Presets folder.
Click here to download: Lightroom Export Presets
CONVERTING & SAVING FROM PHOTOSHOP
With your final epitome open in Photoshop go upward to "File – Save For Web" (at present under 'File – Export – Save For Web' from the July Photoshop CC update).
A box similar to the one below should be shown. You tin can select the "JPG Loftier" preset as a base to starting time from only make certain all settings are every bit highlighted below, with your longest edge being 2048px (ideally you lot should size the photo to 2048px in PS first to retain the platonic sharpness, resizing steps described below). Or yous can salve a PNG file which will consequence in even less compression when uploaded to Facebook, although the file sizes will be much larger. I believe embrace photos and profile pictures for Facebook pages volition actually display a PNG file with less compression than a normal album/wall JPG if you upload as PNG. This is to allow crisp and sharp text for logos etc.
*Note in the image below, the height should be 2048px as it is the longest border.
Click Save and you are done!
Alternatively these are the steps for sizing and converting images within Photoshop:
Converting to sRGB Colour Space
1. With your last edited epitome open up, go up to Edit -> Convert to Profile
2. On the Convert to Profile Screen, modify the "Destination Space" to sRGB IEC61966-two.1. Leave the conversion options how they appear in the epitome below (y'all may want to select flatten prototype).
iii. Click "OK" and your epitome volition now be in the sRGB color space. You may non be able to tell the deviation visually simply it volition make all the difference when you upload.
*Any motion-picture show you upload online should be in sRGB, regardless of if it is Facebook, FlickR or 500px.
*If your source infinite already says "sRGB XXXXXXXXXX" then you are already working in sRGB and do not need to catechumen the file (yous may want to await into changing your camera and photoshop settings then that y'all are working in Adobe RGB 1998).
Resizing The Prototype (Resolution)
1. With your image still open, go up to Image -> Prototype Size (Alt + Ctrl + I)
two. On the Epitome Size Screen, make sure the units are in "Pixels" and that the Width & Elevation boxes are linked with the concatenation icon. Modify the longest edge to 2048 and leave the other edge at whatever is automatically calculated. Make sure the resolution is on 72 Pixels/Inch.
3. Click OK and your image is now optimised to the largest size currently handled by Facebook.
Pinch (Saving)
Yous should be saving all of your images or 'master files' in a lossless file format such as TIFF or PSD. You lot should just save to a lossless codec such as JPG when you lot go to output for upload or printing etc. If you ever want to brand any changes to a file you open up the chief file and and then save a new JPG.
1. With your file open, become to File -> Save Equally (Ctrl + Shift + S)
two. Modify the "Salve every bit type" to JPEG and make certain the ICC Profile is ticked on and click Save. (adept housekeeping would exist to add "_FB" to your filename so that you tin instantly recognise what the file is for)
3. On the JPEG Options Screen brand sure the Quality is set to 12, Maximum and Baseline ("Standard") is checked.
4. Hitting OK and you should at present have an paradigm optimised for Facebook.
CONCLUSION
Your images on Facebook are never going to look equally expert every bit viewing a total resolution PSD on a 4k monitor but by following the steps higher up you are doing everything you tin to maximise the quality of your file on Facebook.
You tin can do this process for uploading to whatsoever website, all yous have to do is find out what ideal size yous should make your paradigm for each website and change the resolution appropriately. As of July 2015 Instagram has increased their display size to 1080 x 1080 px (it used to brandish at 614 x 614 although I had read that 1936px was the recommended size for Instagram). So to export a file optimised for Instagram just change the maximum dimension 1080px instead of 2048px as nosotros did for Facebook to a higher place. To go even farther into optimising files you should actually change your sharpening depending on how large the image is going to be displayed. This is a picayune more complicated and I might comprehend this in a tutorial on sharpening at a later on appointment.
Websites like 500px and FlickR are known for displaying better quality images (they will still accept some compression etc.) and then if Facebook doesn't cut it for yous try 1 of these services. You'll discover that many photographers mail service links to these pages from Facebook as opposed to uploading directly to FB.
I hope this was helpful, please send me any feedback, spelling mistakes or further questions you lot might have.
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