How to make your photos stay sharp on Facebook (Post Production)

 There are so many beautiful images on the web, from our digital cameras and our DSLR's that when uploaded to the most famous social networking site nowadays (Facebook) would look tremendously bad, dull and lifeless compared if you will upload it to other image & video hosting site like Flickr. It would be not so nice publishing images from your memorable moments (e.g. wedding) that you want to share with your thousands of your friends on Facebook that got those unwanted quality and sharpness.

There was a time when my friend was bragging with his very expensive DSLR camera he bought lately, few days after he went to my house and ask me to see check his camera if it is fine because his photo quality and sharpness were very dull in the Facebook. So it goes that high end and very expensive camera equipments is not the answer to that problem either or any post production software like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Every day in Facebook there are 1.7 billion user photos, 2.2 billion friends tagged in user photos, 160 terabytes of photo storage used with an extra 60 terabytes available, 60+ million photos added each week which take up 5 terabytes of disk space, 3+ billion photo images served to users every day and 100,000+ images served per second during our peak traffic windows. So what went wrong? The Facebook developers hasn't come up yet with an idea on how to resolve that issue. Many forums and other blogs tried to help with some suggestions.

After few searches on the internet regarding the quality and sharpness of your photos after uploading to Facebook, It was found out that 90% of the Facebook users share the same problem of quality. The Facebook photo compression is so bad that in minute details it looks like it's an HDR image (High Dynamic Range) or very noisy photos.

The following trick but not totally the solution to this problem is so simple. With any photo editing software, you can do the following with your image:

1. re-size your image to H: 604 x W: 604
2. Set image quality to 80-95
3. Make sure you are exporting the image as sRGB and not AdobeSRGB

That's it, though it would not be perfect compared to the images uploaded in other image hosting site like Flickr but it would do great. Try it and Enjoy!