images are not clear and blurry

[niki mundeen]

Ive asked this question many times and not got the answer.

Ive created facebook banners using aff designer app on vectors with the crrect sizing on 300dpi.

when exporting the image and uploading to facebook the images are not crisp and clear and blurry looking.

I tried on site canva to make similar banner and this is low end graphics in hat it does, however the image from canva is crisp and clear, resolution is very good.

am I doing something wrong on designer im sure resolution should be better if canva manages it. possibly change settings?

[stokerg]

Hi @niki mundeen and Welcome to the Forums,

How does the image appear before uploading to Facebook?  Do you have an example afdesign file you can attach?  Also, what format are you exporting as?  

[niki mundeen]

I was always exporting as png just incase needed a transparent bg or not. 

I have created a fresh basic fb cover then exported to both png and jpeg. the jpeg was the clearer resolution looking than the png, but still not as high resolution as some images have seen. 

i will send attachment 

demo fb cover.afdesign

[John Rostron]

I have  exported these images as jpg and as png. I have looked at them at 100% in Photo, Paint, ACDSee and PhotoLab and they all  so no sign of blurriness. 

There was a recent thread here which might solve your problem.

John

[Jowday]

2 hours ago, niki mundeen said:

I was always exporting as png just incase needed a transparent bg or not. 

I have created a fresh basic fb cover then exported to both png and jpeg. the jpeg was the clearer resolution looking than the png, but still not as high resolution as some images have seen. 

i will send attachment 

demo fb cover.afdesign 26.69 kB · 8 downloads

First of all 300DPI is for printing. It doesn't matter. Set it to 96 for web use for good measure.

My guess is that you are viewing the output image in a program that scales it or does something to it. The PNG output is and was fine.

[niki mundeen]

thanks for your thoughts on this. 

I decided to check on google and there a quite a lot of articles claiming facebook thmselves alter this becuase of wanting faster load times, im not going to explain in great detail but such as image size, format plays a part you see lots of people using social media, twiter also has images blurry looking. 

Neverthless i have used canva and uploaded sttaight to fb and images always seem clearer.

I will try the format setting you suggesting and if I see difference I will let you know, thanks.

[Fixx]

DPI does not matter. Resolution is set to what FB recommends (820 X 312). Thus FB should not resample, but probably will recompress to JPEG anyway which may affect clarity.