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I've seen some clients uploading the artwork they've gotten from me and losing quality.
When you upload an image bigger than 1280 pixels tall or wide, FA rescales it down and blurrs it, making you lose some of the small details and crispy lines. If the art you got is kinda messy to begin with it won't make much difference though.
The way to avoid that loss of quality is by uploading a copy the image with a different filename than the final one, so you have the preview and thumbnail matching your final image. Then you go to the submitted image and one of the options under it will be "Change submission file", which will let you reupload now the correctly named image and this time it will stay in your gallery in that bigger size. Using two different file names helps you avoid problems with the low tech systems FA is built on, to make sure it updates the file at all.
HOWEVER! Before uploading the biggest image you can, take a second to consider if you should.
Is your image really detailed? If yes, then go ahead and upload a big size image so we all can enjoy the hard work put into the detail by the artist. But if it's not detailed you should consider that the viewer will be greeted with something unintellegible plastered on their face until they zoom out manually... it's not pleasant when there's nothing to see up close.
Basically remember that we are on the interwebs, we are going to see the image in an electronic device's screen. In many cases it'll be a greater experience to receive the whole image on the screen right away, specially - as I said before - when there's no relevant detail to see up close.
Have a nice day \o/
When you upload an image bigger than 1280 pixels tall or wide, FA rescales it down and blurrs it, making you lose some of the small details and crispy lines. If the art you got is kinda messy to begin with it won't make much difference though.
The way to avoid that loss of quality is by uploading a copy the image with a different filename than the final one, so you have the preview and thumbnail matching your final image. Then you go to the submitted image and one of the options under it will be "Change submission file", which will let you reupload now the correctly named image and this time it will stay in your gallery in that bigger size. Using two different file names helps you avoid problems with the low tech systems FA is built on, to make sure it updates the file at all.
HOWEVER! Before uploading the biggest image you can, take a second to consider if you should.
Is your image really detailed? If yes, then go ahead and upload a big size image so we all can enjoy the hard work put into the detail by the artist. But if it's not detailed you should consider that the viewer will be greeted with something unintellegible plastered on their face until they zoom out manually... it's not pleasant when there's nothing to see up close.
Basically remember that we are on the interwebs, we are going to see the image in an electronic device's screen. In many cases it'll be a greater experience to receive the whole image on the screen right away, specially - as I said before - when there's no relevant detail to see up close.
Have a nice day \o/
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New mods. IMVU changed nothing. We still have the dumbest moderators