Quick tip for those who post art in Twitter:
You can force Twitter to post the “raw” quality of your pics by adding one (1) pixel of transparency in the image.
Twitter uses some algorithm to compress images into .jpg, but it cannot do that if there’s transparency involved in the image, forcing it to be .png in its full quality. Literally one singular pixel ANYWHERE counts for this, it can be on a corner if you don’t want it to be bothersome.
Figured some folks might be interested in this, considering Tumblr no longer supports the _raw trick.
For the sake of example instead of hearsay, I’ve posted a comparison in my Twitter here, but will also explain here. All images are 2000x2000px versions of my logo you can see on the top left of this post:
Here’s the original image without a background, in its original form. Notice the .png on the filename title.
Here’s the image with a white background. You can see Twitter turned it into a .jpg and youcan see compression artifacts surrounding it.
Here’s the image with a white background, but one pixel edged off. Notice the .png back on the filename and the retaining of quality from the first picture compared to the compression from the second.
All it took was a simple thing:
Nothing else, nothing more. It retains the original quality as you posted it, isn’t very bothersome and can be easily filled up if someone finds it.
Since Tumblr removed the _raw image trick from availability, this is a good way to share high quality, high resolution pictures again with the world.
Cheers!
Once more but with feeling of exodus
