Facebook photo album image size

by Michael on March 9, 2009

Are the pictures in your Facebook album all look blurry, or out-of-focus ?

The reason is simple, your pictures are not optimized to be displayed in Facebook. Even though nowadays’ digital cameras can capture very high resolution pictures but you shall not upload your full-size pictures to Facebook album straightaway. That requires Facebook to resize the pictures to fit their page layout, and makes your pictures look blurry.

In fact, the optimal size for pictures in Facebook album is 604 pixels high (or wide). Therefore, before you upload the pictures to your newly created album in Facebook, try first resizing the picture to 604 pixels wide or high. Then, use the sharpening tool or unsharp mask within your image editing tool to sharpen the pictures. Lastly, upload those processed pictures to the album.

Here you go, one sample album from my Kyoto trip. Enjoy !!

Update 1 : From January 20th 2010, Facebook has upgraded their photo album feature to support 720 pixels high (or wide). So if you have fast Internet connection, then why not resize the photos to 720 pixels and share those with your friends ?


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Lewis March 9, 2009 at 11:23 am

Great tips!

Simon June 30, 2009 at 11:05 am

Very useful – i found that my pretty much crisp photos became blurred as well. I will use this from now on. Thanks Michael!

sylv July 23, 2009 at 2:05 pm

thank you for the magic number! :D

Lynn Fooks October 13, 2009 at 7:05 am

Hi,

Your site was found with keyword phase “facebook page photo size.” Thank you for the
information I needed before adding a photo to a new facebook page. :) )

Samuel Lai October 13, 2009 at 9:58 am

surprise that I got to be here with Google “facebook upload photo size”… XD.

Thanks mentor!

Should I switch to Flickr, or Picasa?!

Michael October 14, 2009 at 10:42 am

Well you know, my view is always … run your own photo gallery in your own server. But then again, Flickr is better for gallery / streaming I guess.

Danielle January 5, 2010 at 2:54 am

Thank you so much! I’m currently working on a facebook fan page and I keep coming back to this lesson.

Mike January 5, 2010 at 7:44 am

I did some playing with this a while back and found that the best bet was to use 603×402, if you want to maintain a 3:2 aspect ratio

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=245774&id=593745025&l=b6b11cf6d2

However, they seem to have changed the sizes recently. Got here by looking for new standards – will repost if I find anything.

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