#bthot

[imaibby]

repression works great and i would highly recommend it

[imaibby]

yall cant bother me, im high af

[imaibby]

i’m super emotional rn and it’s making me gag

[imaibby]

causing problems and inconveniences 24/7

[iguanamouth]

can you draw what you think the God of Lizards would look like? :o

wait SHIT i thought that said KING its too late

[frogmanslightschool]

Not sure if anyone else has had this problem but I'll give this a shot. I use a Canon T4i and Photoshop CS6. I photographed something in RAW, and made the colours look vivid and beautiful using Photoshop CS6. When I save the photograph as a PNG, JPG, or TIFF and view them in Google Chrome, the colours look the same as they do in photoshop. However, when I upload them to Deviant Art or Facebook, it appears to drastically desaturate. Is there any way to prevent this?

Hi there! Kaitlin here.Basically, you’re suffering from every artists’ nightmare: compression. When we shoot in RAW, we’re capturing a ton of light and color information, and as you’ll probably notice, those files are huge. Even when you save them as a PNG or a JPG for web presentation right out of CS6′s “Save As” dialog, those files are going to be big. Now, I’m not going to get into the technical aspects of specifically what happens, but essentially, (nearly) all websites have a limit to the size of photo you can upload. This can either be explicit like on Tumblr, or just sort of accepted on the site’s backend, which results in them compressing the photo for you. Facebook does it quite severely with JPGs (for them, it’s better to upload a PNG). Basically, they reduce the amount of color information etc in the photo to make it take up less space on the servers. Sometimes this can be really minimal, but for really vibrant or highly constrasted images, it can be devastating. So what can you do?1. Use Photoshop’s Save For Web & Devices Dialog

Right near the Save As command is another one: Save for Web & Devices. You can find more advanced tutorials on exactly how to get the best image out of this, but this method of saving will make sure that whatever you upload will be a lot closer to your actual intent than if you just use Save As. 

2. Know the Best Specs for Each Site

Tumblr will show giant images, but will automatically resize them down to 540px wide to fit in the dashboard. Facebook plays nicer with PNGs than JPGs and will compress you photo less if it’s 1000px wide or less. Some of this you can do via guesswork (e.g. for tumblr, I size everything to around 1080px so it sizes at 50% nicely and has a nice dashboard view, while still being big once clicked, which I just sort of… figured out), but there are also websites aimed at photographers/online artists that will explain exactly the best settings for each website. 

3. Give A Little

Even with the Save For Web & Devices dialog and using the best settings for each site, you’re still going to find that your image won’t look as good uploaded to most sites as it does in its full Photoshop .psd glory. And unfortunately, that’s just how it is—compression and upload limits will always be there. Hopefully the internet catches up one day (hint hint, Tumblr, maybe we can have dashboards that aren’t just 540px, especially when most images are shot wide?), but until then, patience is necessary. You can also find services to show your photos on that don’t compress as much—deviantART is much more geared towards illustration these days, whereas sites like 500px offer that community aspect without cramping your style nearly as much. 

[frogmanslightschool]

Regarding that ask you just published: I would gladly take Froggie's advice over some dude who doesn't even have the audacity to come off anon. Froggie and his team know their stuff. I have no doubt about that.

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