Are Facebook pictures good enough to caricature?

Good images make better caricatures

The best caricatures come from clear images for the artists to use as source images.

People ask: are Facebook images OK for use when ordering a caricature?

The answer is is generally Yes

Nowadays, with the improvements in phone cameras and changes to Facebook’s image processing Facebook are suitable for the artist to use.

How to download highest resolution photos from Facebook

To download the highest resolution photos from Facebook, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the photo you want to download on Facebook.
  2. Right-click on the photo and select “Open image in new tab”.
  3. Right-click on the image in the new tab and select “Save image as…”
  4. Choose a location on your computer to save the photo and click “Save”.
  5. Scroll down and see how you can use the image/s!

Size does matter!

It is important that you put yourself in the artist’s seat and imaging trying to come up with a good representation of a person is they were sitting 10-15 metres/yards away.

Please send images that are nice and close. If we need a full body, send a picture that shows that. We don’t mind getting multimple images to choose from!

Of course the images used on the artist’s sample pages are size reduced to allow for the page layout.

So how big does an image need to be?

See this example:

This is the MINIMUM size we need, though even this is boarderline (plus it is a little dark, but we can fix that so the artist can see it better). The GOOD aspect of this photo are the expressions. Great caricatures start with great expressions – often the zanier the better.

At all time we strive to deliver you the best product possible and this starts with image quality we get!

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