If you use Facebook, youve probably uploaded a picture at some point.

Heres how to prevent that from happening.

How Facebook Ruins Your Images

Facebook is huge.

An estimated350 million photosare uploaded to Facebookevery day.

This makes them smaller in size, but it can also ruin image quality.

For example, lets take a look at this Strong Bad email screenshot.

you’ve got the option to also see how this compression affects text as well.

This happens on the internet all the time.

Person A says something funny on Twitter.

Person B takes a screenshot and uploads it to Facebook.

Person C then downloads that image, shares it to Tumblr and adds a comment.

It will likely look like crap.

Of course, Facebook isnt the only site that compresses images.

However, Facebooks compression seems to be more ruthless than most sites.

However, there are a few ways to minimize the effect.

In some cases, you might tweak your photos before uploading them to Facebook.

you might also use separate hosting to share photos without ever touching Facebooks servers.

This is best used for photographs.

Create High Quality albums when uploading:Facebook has a high quality option, but its buried.

To enable it, create a new photo album.

While youre creating the album, check the box that says High Quality.

Anything smaller than this and your cover photo will look stretched and pixelated.

Sometimes you just want to share something funny or interesting you found online.

Imgur uses lossless compression for any photosmaller than 5MB.

When you share the link to that photo, Facebook will embed the higher-resolution version.

This will share the version Facebook has already uploaded.

Once may be fine, but everyone doing this over and over is likethe telephone gamefor images.

Instead, download the original, or share the existing one using the Share button.

Not only will it get compressed, but it looks tacky.

If youre taking a screenshot of text, zoom in a bit.

If youre screenshotting a frame from a video, switch to the highest quality setting first.

Remember, the bigger the better.

Most of this will have a dramatic effect on the quality of the images you share to begin with.