F U Facebook Photos *Rant*

note: I’m stressed over an assignment and work and facebook just gave me a perfect excuse to rant.

What kinda crap quality does facebook keep it’s photos in.

Ugly facebook upload

Ugly facebook upload

Don’t see any difference? Here’s the original.

Original upload

Original upload

See any differences? Let me show you…

What happened to my balloon?

Ugh the sky!

Ugh the sky!

Details are distorted, color accuracy is gone (see the nice sky blue having a greenish hue after being uploaded to facebook).

If you wanted to edit pictures, and do stuff like HDR – never ever ever ever use facebook pictures.

Original


facebook

Disclaimer: Yes I know I know facebook is *just* meant for social networking and pictures of people arguably don’t have to be that pretty. But still, can’t they just optimize their compression algorithms to at least make less of these blatant disfigurations?