I don’t know if this is the correct place to be asking this, but I don’t know where else to ask it.
When we upload an image as cover photo for our facebook page, the quality is dreadful. This only happens when there are illustrations in it. When it’s a full picture, everything is perfect.
So my question is, is there anything you can do to reduce the compression rate of facebook, or is it all upto them? For instance, are there any saving options in photoshop which are beneficial for the quality (on facebook)?
Try uploading a version of the cover that weighs less than 100kb. Do this by lowering the jpeg quality when saving from photoshop.
In my case I had a 158kb image which facebook compressed to 38kb. A 98kb version stayed untouched by fb…