: How do I get my vector art to have crisp lines on instagram? As soon as I upload my art to Instagram, the quality decreases. I have tried everything I can think of. I have used 1080x1080

@Kevin459

The problem with your example image is jpeg artefacts. Social media sites like twitter/facebook/instagram rescale (resample) and turn all images into jpeg and add lots of compression. This is to keep the file size small so that images can be quickly downloaded on mobile devices with slow internet connections, and also to save bandwidth to reduce the strain on their servers.

The only real fix is to optimise the images to jpeg yourself, rather than allow these sites to do it for you. Try to rescale your images to the exact size they will be displayed at, save as jpeg, and add as much compression as you dare while trying to keep the file size at 100kb or less.

Facebook has a page that explains how to get the best out of your images - link here

Alternatively, don't use these social media sites to share your images. Use other services which don't mess with your images so much.

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@Miguel516

Send the JPEG to your phone and then take a screenshot of it and upload that screen shot.

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@Merenda852

Instagram will, just like many other social media sites, convert your image into a .jpg and then compress the living daylights out of it. They have to store huge amounts of images on their servers, and those need being paid as well. Hence, they compress as much as they can.

The only thing you can do about this is taking care that compression doesn't hurt your image too much. In your case, it is most probably the blue / magenta contrast in a tilted shape that causes the problems. In cases like these, the .jpg artefacts really show.

Try and optimise your image as a low-quality .jpg to see what will end up on instagram. That way, you know what's coming. A small change in colour or even cropping can make a huge difference.

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