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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Great tips!
Very useful – i found that my pretty much crisp photos became blurred as well. I will use this from now on. Thanks Michael!
thank you for the magic number!
Hi,
Your site was found with keyword phase “facebook page photo size.” Thank you for the
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information I needed before adding a photo to a new facebook page.
surprise that I got to be here with Google “facebook upload photo size”… XD.
Thanks mentor!
Should I switch to Flickr, or Picasa?!
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.
Thank you so much! I’m currently working on a facebook fan page and I keep coming back to this lesson.
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.