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Tried uploading 300dpi scans to my portfolio and they looked worse than the previews

I spent 3 hours rescanning my best pieces at 300dpi for a showcase on ArtStation but the final uploads came out blurrier than my old 72dpi ones. Turns out their compression algorithm hates high-res files so it just nukes the detail. Anyone else notice this or find a workaround?

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jordan_anderson9013d ago

and then i found out the hard way that artstation literally hates 300dpi. i spent like a whole weekend rescanning my charcoal series only to hit upload and watch them turn into pixel soup. it's wild because 72dpi looked cleaner on their site which makes zero sense. honestly i think the trick is to export at 100dpi or something weird like that, but keep the image dimensions massive. like 4000px on the longest side so they have to scale it down instead of compress it to death. also try saving as PNG instead of JPEG, i swear their JPEG engine is on crack or something.

hugo_bennett13d agoMost Upvoted

Wait, are you saying the previews actually looked cleaner? That's so backwards and honestly makes me feel better about spending hours on the same thing only for it to look like garbage.