andys Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Hi There, I'm really struggling with this, and have spent hours trying to get an image to look good - when I do as a tutorial on this forum says, create the image large, and then cut it down by halves, I still get a really poor-quality image. It looks great on my own computer, whether in paint.net or in the image viewer after saving the file, but when I put it on the web, it looks terrible. See the logo on this page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Invoc-Houston-CRM-and-BPOS-Solution-Provider/208352115165 Can you tell what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manc Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Save as png for better quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance McKnight Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 What tutorial were you doing? Quote Officially retired from this forum. Have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Yeah JPEG is just a recipe for sadness with those types of images. Prefer .PDN (native Paint.NET format) when you need to keep layers. It is lossless, but only Paint.NET can understand it. It is analogous to .PSD for Photoshop, which you also can't post on Facebook. Prefer .PNG in general. It is lossless, and the resulting file size benefits (is smaller) when there are regions of solid color (exactly like in the image you have there). Prefer .JPEG for things like photos and colorful drawings. It is a "lossy" format that throws away details which it figures human eyes won't notice. It throws away more detail depending on the "Quality" setting. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 In this case, it doesn't matter what format you save it in. When you upload it to Facebook, they're going to convert it to JPG format for you. If you have an issue with that, take it up with Facebook. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andys Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 Thanks guys. I just have seen other images that look good there, but mine doesn't - and it looks fine on my pc, it only gets smudged like that when I put it on the web. It's confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Maybe if you upload a high quality JPG, Facebook won't try to further compress it? Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance McKnight Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 (edited) Edit: Nevermind Edited January 20, 2011 by Lance McKnight Quote Officially retired from this forum. Have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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