When i try to export my art into jpg file to post it on social media i noticed the jpg has slightly-off quality compare to what i saw on krita aka the original (like the black less deep and the edge less sharp). Not too much but somehow its changed from smt i really proud (like “hey! you gotta see this”) to smt completely normal (like “nah, this is just a normal drawing”), and i dont wanna post it anymore (tell me if im not alone)
So is there any tips to export image as close as possible to original (kra file) for social media?
This is a very wide topic and if you do a search on this forum, you’ll find dozens of posts and helpful tips.
Here are a couple I can provide.
Make sure you’re working in sRGB and not any other colour profile (read the status at the bottom of the workspace to see which profile you’re in).
Don’t use jpg, use png instead.
You’ll never see exactly the same colours/details on social sites because each one compresses images and applies profiles with no notice but those 2 tips above will help you get better results.
EDIT - Add - Hello @Michelist - We’re working together again!
Hello @aya1, after you exported your picture from KRA to JPG, did you view the JPG in Krita, and it looked not so nice, or did you view it with another app? Because if it would look bad in Krita, then you should try to optimize the chosen settings, but if it looks different in other applications than Krita it is something that is more than normal with common software not using color-profiles.
But maybe you want to read a little further:
hello, thanks for the response @sooz i leave everything default so it should be sRGB, and export to png does keep the original quality but social sites especially instagram would convert it into jpg anyway @Michelist i view the jpg on ImageGlass which is a viewer app and compare with kra on Krita, and i know social sites will convert my file (again) into jpg, but i wanna know what is the best i can do on my end to keep it as close as possible, like export to png would give a better result?
If the exported file looks good on your system, then you probably need to optimize for that social networking site you want to work with. I would look at the art from other users that you find on this site and look closely how they are doing it. Is it special resolution (not too big?), or maybe they have a specific aspect (like more square rather than rectangle), etc.
If your exported file is large, then the site may be compressing it aggressively to JPG to reduce the size as much as possible. If you use a lower resolution, maybe it will compress it less, which could reduce blurriness or blockiness. The result may also depend greatly on the type of your artwork. If it’s something with high-frequency patterns, such as screen tones for manga, I believe it could be butchered really badly by a careless JPG conversion.
I know you really mean well and want to help, but we artists are at a loss here.
However, I do not believe that one can rely on that.
The problem is that you can never really tell which website is editing your images and how, and probably 95% +X modify the pictures they show. So it is the most seldom case to see what an artist did and uploaded to a website. You only see what the website is willing to show us.
Some websites resize the images, others compress the images to save disk space, still others convert the color space or even the file type (PNG to JPG, for example), and some do all of these together or in various combinations. As an artist, you are at the mercy of most of these websites.
If you really have managed to adapt your picture to website X it does not mean this adaption would work on website Y.
It’s like Don Quixote fighting the windmills.
And that every browser-manufacturer has its own ideas how a website has to be shown is the next construction site you have to fight against…
