How to prevent your social media photos looking blurry.

How to prevent your social media photos looking blurry

So you’ve chosen a phone or camera that has a high mega pixel number thinking it will help you take great photos, spent care setting up your photo, then you’ve taken the photo and uploaded it to Facebook, only to find out that it looks blurry and out of focus….arrggghh! How frustrating!

Social media has many frustrating things (and many good things), but one of the most frustrating is when you expect one thing, and you get something else. Social media (especially Facebook) has so much data to store that it has developed a way to compresses your photos so that they are smaller files. The problem with this is that it ruins the quality of your photo. If the photo is downloaded, saved or screenshot, and re-uploaded over and over the resulting file is even worse.

The most common problem that makes Facebook compress a file is when the original file is too big. Your 20 megapixel file would be great if you wanted to print an enlargement for a huge banner, but it’s not suitable for most everyday uses. The example below shows what that compression does to your photo (left), and how re-sizing it correctly will keep it sharp and clear (right). To re-size your photos yourself is not as easy as you might think, and you can’t turn off Facebook’s compression. Mobile devices don’t usually allow you to easily re-size your photos, and it’s not just a matter of cropping it smaller. Your photo needs to be saved with a certain set of pixel dimensions as well as resolution to end up with a photo that is sharp and clear. The industry standard for doing this is to use Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop.

When you hire Jannette Fulham Photography for your promotional, real estate, and corporate portraits, you will be supplied with both high resolution and web-sized files. The high resolution files are needed for printing enlargements, such as signs and banners, and the web-sized files are correctly sized files for social media, and small printed documents. Correctly sized files will make your job easier because they upload faster, load quicker when viewing, and look sharp and clear.

To have some great photos created for your business, please contact me today for a quote.

Project Brief:
Photograph the Riverland Musical Society’s performance of ‘Come From Away’, the smash-hit musical based on the remarkable true story of 7,000 airline passengers stranded in a small Newfoundland town in the wake of 9/11, this heartwarming production celebrates the power of kindness, community, and the human spirit.

Project Brief:
Esteemed cook, television personality, and Australian Almonds ambassador, Poh Ling Yeow, was in the Riverland for a book signing of the cookbook that was recently launched in Loxton, followed by a four-course dinner for industry representatives at the Almond Centre of Excellence.
Photos needed to include the meet and greet and book signing event, people enjoying the dinner, key guests, marquee and set-up details, and food.

Project Brief:
Photos of a brand new car dealership premises, including exteriors, interiors, each dealership separately, exterior photo of all three together, workshop areas for archival purposes (not shown below), and management team. Photos are to be used in a range of marketing mediums such as social media, brochures, and website.

Project Brief:
Another new product from 23rd Street Distillery in Renmark, South Australia, was launched at an invitation-only event. “Photographs of people enjoying themselves so that we can use it for promotional pieces for other events we host in the future. Photographs of the product being consumed. Photographs of the Product stand-alone for marketing purposes (e.g. on the bar, or amongst some set-up)”.
*This gallery of images is a selection of photos, not the whole collection.

How to prevent your social media photos looking blurry.

How to prevent your social media photos looking blurry

How to prevent your social media photos looking blurry.

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