Whether you lot're a working professional or not, uploading your images to social networks is generally a standard for most, and if yous're going to be shooting those images on high-quality dedicated cameras or high-quality phone cameras you'll want them to look the all-time they can. Unfortunately, posting highest-resolution images isn't the default for many social networks. Perchance most notably, Facebook is notorious for taking your beautifully crafted epitome and reducing it to await like rubbish. We'll assist you set that.

It warrants saying that uploading to Facebook from a desktop platform will generally yield ameliorate results than mobile but even then the images by and large don't look as good as possible if you don't take some parameters into account – essentially tailoring the image for FB before inputting into FB. Today, yet, we'll focus on a quick tip for uploading to Facebook from mobile and getting the best images you can, and really, it's naught more than than a setting change within the Facebook app, and there'due south a quick video at the end showing exactly how to.

*You can open images in a new tab to meet the divergence – it shows upwardly quite prominently within the Facebook App.

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HD: 2048 x 1365, 180 kb

The Facebook mobile app essentially allows a user to upload in low quality and what they call 'HD', with the default setting existence low quality. To alter that all that'southward needed is to become into the main FB mobile Menu > Settings > Account Settings > Videos and Photos, so toggle the ii sliders over to the right. There'due south one slider for uploading video in Hd and the other for uploading photos in HD. Toggle them and that's pretty much it, and the departure in epitome quality is significant. Here'due south a curt video going through it, and some sample images in both depression res and HD.

In case you're wondering, this applies to any images you upload regardless of what y'all shot them in – information technology doesn't affair if you transferred a high-res file from a WiFi photographic camera or something, FB mobile will significantly downgrade information technology. Generally, e'er keep these tabs toggled on.

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HD: 1367 × 2048, 151 kb

Your Photos Are Not Uploading To Facebook In HD By Default | Here's The Fix

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Shot on an RX100 MK1 at ISO1600

This is problematic now, because as photograph professionals we're judged on the quality of the work people see, and in that location'southward no denying Facebook is a major source of optics-on-piece of work; It'southward meaning for many of our businesses.

As that's the case, when nosotros upload images to Facebook these days, we're not simply uploading phone snaps, only using our phones and tablets to upload proper, edited, polished representations of our piece of work. And then, without further a-practice, here's the fix that will allow your best work smoothen through:

From the Facebook Mobile App become to Settings>Videos & Photos. Your screen progression should appear as beneath:

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Once at that place, you'll exist greeted with the following menu, and all y'all'll demand to practise information technology toggle those switches to the right to turn the default low-res setting off, and Facebook will upload higher quality versions for y'all.

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Those of yous who are discerning photographers are probably wondering what size this 'HD' feature maxes out at, and as far as I tin tell it'south 2048×2048, and video tin can be input as 1080p or fifty-fifty 4K, but will be downscaled to 720. It appears that using your own software to downscale the video to 720 yields a better event than Facebook's ain algorithm.

Furthermore, while I can't seem to observe a precise size limit for photo uploads, uploading a JPEG where I get-go saved for web then ran through JPEGMini seems to look a picayune better than just uploading the JPEG straight, even with the Hard disk drive characteristic on. It's e'er advantageous to save for web when possible, for Facebook.