Photo Size/Quality.

TaurusDevil

Thanks! I appreciate the advice! So any other than where it says RAW in my camera settings is JPEG?

snerkler

Not sure what you mean by this, but set your image type to JPEG. I always choose the largest size and finest quality. I'm not overly familiar with Canon but with most cameras you have in camera settings to change contrast, saturation etc to suit your tastes.

TaurusDevil

Mine is on the largest and finest now

stearman65

To upload them to Facebook or something similar you need them to be JPEGS around 1920 x 1080 pixels, which is the same aspect ratio of most widescreen TV's 16-9 aspect ratio.

TaurusDevil

With Facebook, it's always been fine for me, until i changed my camera settings to RAW I changed it right back! Too complicated!

AMc

RAW files are great if you want to crop, edit, adjust the exposure and tone etc. You then save them out as JPG for printing and sharing.
if you do the same edits on a JPG file it starts to degrade the image quite rapidly.
If you’re not going to edit then just use a good JPG mode.
If you’re always going to process use RAW.
if you’re not sure you can shoot RAW JPG and have both options at the expense of using more disk space.

Qactuar

With facebook, make sure that you set uploads to not compress if you are hoping for best quality - facebook will compress by default and it's pretty shoddy.

snerkler

I still don't find it great, but as you say it's a lot better if you choose the option not to compress (on the iphone there's a check box to upload HD).

Qactuar

Facebook keeps moving the location of this option around it seems too - even HD video upload is atrocious - Vimeo is way better, but it's a faff going to another site, isn't it?

snerkler

TBH I upload very little to social media, but most of my friends and family on FB can't tell the difference between a compressed photo vs HD one