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Is it just me or do photos not look awful on facebook? They're compressed to death.
by innes 15y ago
Is it just me or do photos not look awful on facebook? They're compressed to death.
- xelfer 15y agoThey recently added the high quality upload option, I'm guessing most people just want the faster upload and use the compressed versions.
- innes 15y agoI'll need to look into that - haven't seen this option surfaced anywhere in the mobile or desktop sites. Edit: I can see it in desktop upload - I must not have used that for a while. I uploaded a big image as 'high resolution' (actually, you can't select high resolution because the photo is already being uploaded by the time this radio button becomes available for clicking) and facebook shrunk it down to a paltry 720x480. The UI blows it up to larger than this, so it looks more blurry. The basic uploader has no 'high resolution' option, but didnt shrink the uploaded photo down as much.
- brlewis 15y agoAnd I don't see it in the API documentation: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo/ http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo/ I checked a 640x434 photo that I'd uploaded via API. As you said, they did recompress it, with a noticeable difference in quality. I had already set a reasonable web compression level. Their recompression reduced it only from 88KB to 84KB.
- kristiandupont 15y agoBut unless they have some clever client-side compression, upload wont be faster..
- johnthedebs 15y agoI'm pretty sure that's exactly what they do. Haven't used it in a while, but IIRC it's a java applet and is one of the clunkiest parts of the site for that reason.
- thomasgerbe 15y agoI've used the 'high quality' upload option but the compression is still awful compared to say Flickr which also outputs images at different sizes.