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cafeconzod
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January 9, 2019
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Need help uploading art

  • January 9, 2019
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Hello everyone hope ya'll having a great day/night.

I have the following problem which yet i have not found a solution to no matter what i do
For the past days i have been trying to upload my artworks to facebook, instagram, devianart and others...
On my pc/ipad/phone the artworks looks completly fine, with their high quality just how i want them
But wherever i upload them to one of these medias the quality becomes absolutly garbage, pixelated, blurry, not good at all.
I've shared the images with friends and they all looks fine in their phone, the problem seems to be wherever i try to upload them
Saved them in every posibly way, for webs, screens, png, jpeg, 72ppi 150ppi 300ppi. I don't know what to do

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3 replies

Daniel E Lane
Daniel E Lane
Inspiring
January 11, 2019

A few possible things here. First off, what size is the original image in Illustrator? If it's really small and you are exporting it to a larger size, that could account for quite a bit of softness. Make sure to have the image scaled up to a larger than you need size at least, if not to the exact size you want to export as will really help on the sharpness.

Why are you exporting as a .png to go to social media? Try going to a jpeg instead. Facebook for sure will convert your .png into a .jpeg anyway in its compression process, so it will stay cleaner just sticking to the same file format. Also for facebook, don't go larger than 2000 pixels on the long side. Also, the png24 isn't using anywhere near enough colors to deal with the gradients you have going on in there to make it look as good as it can.

Jacob Bugge
Community Expert
Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 9, 2019

cafeconzod,

For some services there are requirements/recommendations concerning important things like exact pixel x pixel size, which is crucial for crisp and clear raster artwork (PNG24 being superior to JPEG).

In any case I believe it is safer to Save for Web (legacy) to specific pixel x pixel sizes, which may differ for different uses and forget all about PPI which tends to muddle things.

But I am afraid that social media sites are notorious for quality destruction.

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 9, 2019

    Social media compresses your artworks. There's basically not a lot you can do.

    Can you please post examples of before and after upload?

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      cafeconzodAuthor
      Participant
      January 10, 2019

      Here are the examples. The uploaded one is saved on "save for web at png24" altho wherever however i save this art in any posibly configuration them all ends up looking like this, pixelated/blurry.

      Monika Gause
      Community Expert
      Monika GauseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 10, 2019

      There's not much you can do about it.

      The "typical" vector graphic with its technical gradients and sharp edges is already completely unstuiable for JPEG (and on Facebook it will mostly end up as JPEG). And then you have the color red in it, which is slightly more unsuitable.

      So basically you might need to live with it.

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