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Anonymous

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What are some settings I should check before making a social media graphic?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 10, 2023
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Hi all,

My goal is to create a graphic for a social media post. It will contain an image, text, and graphics. I'll set up the dimensions per the recommendation of the social media site.

What are some settings I should check upon my document setup or export so the text doesn't appear fuzzy on the web? I will set the color mode to RGB.

Thanks for any insight!

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Conrad_C

Community Expert

If you have small text and aren’t happy with it, try different anti-alias settings for it as shown below. Pick the anti-alias method that’s the most readable at 100% magnification. (If your computer display is Retina/HiDPI resolution, you may need to preview web graphics at 200% magnification in Photoshop to match its size in a web browser.)

The first and last thing the demo does is toggle View > Extras, because that it’s easier to see how the settings are changing the text if the selection highlighting is temporarily hidden.

If exporting to JPEG, lower Quality values will make small text look fuzzier.

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Anonymous

Thank you, this is helpful!

Mohammad.Harb

Community Expert

Always start with the Exact specific dimensions, Export as JPG with Embded sRGB color profile.

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Lumigraphics

Legend

PNG, WebP, HEIC, or AVIF may be better choices, depending on the content and hosting platform.

Can you post the site's recommendations?

Leslie Moak Murray

Community Expert

I second what @Lumigraphics said. I make my Instagram posts larger than necessary for this reason. Scaling the size down can increase sharpness, but you cannot make an image larger in Photoshop without loss of quality. Then you export for Web, and it should look fine.

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Anonymous

Thanks! I'm sorry if I'm not understanding, what do you mean by scaling down? My plan is to set the dimenions of my document per the recommendations of the social media site, and then export.

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Lumigraphics

Legend

Scaling an image up or down in Photoshop can result in loss of sharpness and quality. Is this going to just be one specific size?

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