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[b]I don't use FB and don't have an account[/b] so have no experience of its criteria.
I have done some free shoots for 2 clubs who now wish to post them on their own pages. I dont want my own page.
What is the optimum image size for facebook images to look good? I understand the sizes pixel x pixel size may have been recently changed.
2) What quality should I save .jpgs at? I am using Lightroom.
Any other hints and tips on preparation for FB very welcome. I have also posted this question on a photo site but I bet you lot are quicker off the mark! 🙂
Thanks.
There's no need to prepare, apart from making sure the images aren't too huge. I think fb compresses them anyway.
Just make an album on fb, and choose the photos you want to upload.
Follow the on screen instructions, very simple.
I dont seem to be able to find a page giving instructions on how to prepare photos. Perhaps you have to log in to see the photo help pages?
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I dont have a FB account[/b] so can't log in (and I don't want one). The images are for a kids clubs pages.
And you did beat the photo site, well done ST!
You don't have to "prepare" them at all.
Just post them.
Or send them to someone else to post them if you don't have an account.
Just trying to search Google for more info and my question here is already showing on their search results. Amazed how fast its been listed.
It does seem to list results very quickly.
but I don't think you actually need any more information 😉
I am worried in case they post them up and they look all shoddy. Maybe facebook is good at reducing the size - though I have a vauge feeling I have seen people complaining about its compression making some of them look rubbish. Perhaps they are wrong. As I said, I never ever use it so never see pictures posted on it either. I really want them to look polished to encourage people to join the clubs and also to get them to view my own web site.
Suck it and see I guess!
Facebook is very opaque if don't have an account so getting info like this is pretty tricky, but as above - all you need to know is there isn't anything you need to know. Facebook uploads and preps peoples photos for them, theres no leavers for the user to pull to dictate size or quality. They'll end up modestly sized and quite compressed so theres no point starting with a huge file - size them and compress them as you would to send them in an email (700-800 pixel jpegs) as a rough guide, that way the people uploading them won't have long waits for big files to upload.
EDIT
As I said, I never ever use it so never see pictures posted on it either
If someone has made their profile or photos sufficiently public its possible for non Facebook users to view them. Rather than going through facebook's front page google some familiar or famous names plus 'facebook' and you'll find publically accessible profiles and navigate from there to their photo sections.
Thanks 🙂
I always shrink them as they upload much faster.
If you are running a business, I would suggest you set up a Facebook business page and publish the pictures yourself.
Facebook business pages are a very useful marketing tool.
Neal, yes you have a point. I am newish at this though - only just bought and am setting up a web site. I dont want to disappoint the kids either with shoddy pics.
When my web site is up they will be able to directly download large .jpg sizes from passworded galleries so they can print them at home. This will be another couple of weeks yet and also I dont want them to take the large printing sizes and create shoddy FB images with them, so am hoping to release pre-sized ones for FB in advance.
Trying to deal with FB as well at the moment.. I just cant fit it in timewise yet. Also I have a thing about privacy and so am pretty wary of the whole FB system. However I realise I might need to bite the bullet and learn from scratch.
Right, in case anyone else refers to this post I have finally after several searches found some additional info. For details on images sizes on FB and media pages try:
[url= http://havecamerawilltravel.com/photographer/images-photos-facebook-sizes-dimensions-types ]http://havecamerawilltravel.com/photographer/images-photos-facebook-sizes-dimensions-types[/url]
[url= http://louisem.com/1726/best-facebook-photo-sizes-cover-profile-wall-photos ]http://louisem.com/1726/best-facebook-photo-sizes-cover-profile-wall-photos[/url]
[url= http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/11/12/final-social-media-sizing-cheat-sheet/ ]http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/11/12/final-social-media-sizing-cheat-sheet/[/url]
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=337389082130&_fb_noscript=1 ]http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=337389082130&_fb_noscript=1[/url]
I am amazed how many search terms I had to run to find this info - for such a popular site as FB too.
Thanks to all who have tried to help with this. Still no replies on the photo site. ST declared the winner 🙂
However I realise I might need to bite the bullet and learn from scratch.
don't worry - theres very, very little to learn It seems a bigger deal than it is because Facebook stays hidden behind its front door if you're not a user. But pretty much nothing to it, privacy wise theres plenty of control as to how public or private your stuff is, and you can change those settings any time.
Set up a FB account and put in the minimum details and switch on all the privacy settings, you don't have to broadcast your most intimate thoughts if you dont want to. I hardly go near my profile page / timeline, just post on the trail building pages I'm involved with.
Just select the photo and post. I post photos from my iPhone, my Lumix TZ30, and my Nikon D60, and I do absolutely nothing to them. It's not like the early days of the web where you had to prepare web-specific images in order for them to display after doing a bunch of scans from trannies or prints.
[url= http://louisem.com/1733/infographic-facebook-photo-size-dimensions ]http://louisem.com/1733/infographic-facebook-photo-size-dimensions[/url]
Another thanks to everyone for all the encouragement and help.
Latest version of image sizes for ALL social media inc Facebook as of 12.11.2013
[url= http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/11/12/final-social-media-sizing-cheat-sheet ]http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/11/12/final-social-media-sizing-cheat-sheet[/url]
In Lightroom, I export for Facebook at 1000 pixels, 72dpi, limit size to 350 K, low sharpening. BOOM! Facebook will resize full size 300dpi images for you but uploading takes much longer.
Get Jeffrey's Lightroom Facebook export plugin. Apparently it's better to try and resize/compress photos in LR than let FB do it.
FB compression always used to be really horrible, but I think they may have improved it recently.
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