Comments on: Facebook photo album image size

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:38:46 +0000

Hi Oxus, may be you can try using a bigger monitor (with higher resolution) to see whether your pics are display in bigger size ? Hope it helps.

By: Oxus

Oxus — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:42:55 +0000

I don’t find this information for correct, because when I upload 900×900, facebook resize it to 550×550

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:22:15 +0000

Hi Chinny,

Good day. One possible reason is this 900 / 960 pixels feature has not rolled out to your account. Suggest to wait for some more time first and rety.

Hope it helps.

By: Chinny

Chinny — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:09:48 +0000

Hi Michael,

I took your advice and resized my pics to 900 pixels to upload to FB. It automatically rescaled to 720. I also tested in different size: 800, 960, 1024, 2048 and they all reverted same to 720.

Sometime I see photos of 960 pixels from others (right-click on image to check info).

Don’t know why.
Please help to clarify. Thanks!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:51:21 +0000

Hi Ken,

What it really means is you can upload picture to Facebook with size up to 2,048 pixels, but when Facebook display your photos, it will display up to 900 pixels. So what I will do is to keep the appropriate aspect ratio, resize the photo to 900 pixels (such that FB will not downsize it). Hope it helps.

Cheers, Michael

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:29:38 +0000

Hi Michael…
In reference to your last 2 updates on pixel max size on Facebook…Isn’t 900 pixels less than the previous 2048 pixels? Please forgive me if that’s not an intelligent question or comparison…Just trying to learn. Also, if 900 pixels is the max (width or length) then what would the max on the other end be or should I let my software keep the appropriate aspect ratio (whatever it chooses on the other end)?
Thanks so much.

By: Jo-Ann Vorster

Jo-Ann Vorster — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:19:37 +0000

Thanks so much!!!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:13:16 +0000

Glad you found it useful. Cheers.

By: Don Thieme

Don Thieme — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:24:47 +0000

Hi Michael, you don’t know how excited I was to find your posting. This has been the “quest for the Holy Grail.” I’m building my first Facebook “Official Company” page. Based on your tip, here’s what I’ve determined so far. I’m opening our company’s promotional images in CS3/Fireworks 9.0; downsizing the 800 px {wide} JPEG to 600 px {wide} x 343 px {high}; select the image and click on “Sharpen” one time; optimize the image from its setting of 242.09K, 38 Sec @ 56kbps to “JPEG Better Quality” that brings the optimized image down to 79.18k, 12 seconds @ 56kbps. I uploaded to FB these 600 px {wide} images into their “Photos” Tab, Photo Album wizard. So far, I’m liking what I see. Don

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:15:42 +0000

Mary, I think it is set by FB as a “feature”, not much we can do here.