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Robin Nichols
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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Posting online: Facebook

According to Facebook guidelines, high-resolution images can be as large as 2,048 pixels (wide). This dimension will produce the best visual result—even if Facebook's automatic compression algorithms, which are added to every upload, are heavier than most people might be comfortable with. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about the compression level. If the images don't look as good as you hoped, try re-editing them and upload them again—this only takes a few minutes. Facebook is the world's largest repository of images; so, with something like 300 million images uploaded every day, I'm surprised that its compression algorithms aren't more aggressive.

One typical method of reducing the resolution of an image that is destined for posting on a personal website or social media would be to use the Image Size tool (Image>Resize>Image Size). This is fine for one or two images, but tedious if...

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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
Read more about Robin Nichols