Whether y'all're a working professional or not, uploading your images to social networks is generally a standard for most, and if you're going to be shooting those images on high-quality dedicated cameras or high-quality phone cameras y'all'll want them to look the best they can. Unfortunately, posting highest-resolution images isn't the default for many social networks. Maybe most notably, Facebook is notorious for taking your beautifully crafted image and reducing information technology to wait similar rubbish. Nosotros'll help y'all fix that.

Information technology warrants maxim that uploading to Facebook from a desktop platform will by and large yield better results than mobile just even and then the images generally don't look as good as possible if you don't take some parameters into account – substantially tailoring the image for FB before inputting into FB. Today, yet, nosotros'll focus on a quick tip for uploading to Facebook from mobile and getting the best images you can, and really, it'south nothing more a setting change inside the Facebook app, and there's a quick video at the end showing exactly how to.

*You tin open images in a new tab to run into the divergence – information technology shows up quite prominently inside the Facebook App.

Low res: 960 10 640, 49 KB
Hard disk: 2048 x 1365, 180 kb

The Facebook mobile app essentially allows a user to upload in low quality and what they telephone call 'Hard disk', with the default setting being depression quality. To change that all that'southward needed is to go into the main FB mobile Carte > Settings > Business relationship Settings > Videos and Photos, then toggle the two sliders over to the right. There's 1 slider for uploading video in HD and the other for uploading photos in Hd. Toggle them and that's pretty much it, and the difference in paradigm quality is significant. Here's a short video going through information technology, and some sample images in both depression res and HD.

In example yous're wondering, this applies to any images you upload regardless of what you shot them in – it doesn't affair if you transferred a loftier-res file from a WiFi camera or something, FB mobile will significantly downgrade it. Generally, always keep these tabs toggled on.

Depression Res: 640×960, 46 KB
HD: 1367 × 2048, 151 kb

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

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Shot on an RX100 MK1 at ISO1600

This is problematic now, because every bit photograph professionals nosotros're judged on the quality of the work people run across, and in that location's no denying Facebook is a major source of eyes-on-piece of work; It'due south significant for many of our businesses.

As that'south the example, when nosotros upload images to Facebook these days, we're non just uploading phone snaps, but using our phones and tablets to upload proper, edited, polished representations of our work. So, without farther a-do, here's the fix that will permit your best piece of work shine through:

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

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In one case in that location, you'll be greeted with the post-obit menu, and all you'll need to do it toggle those switches to the correct to turn the default low-res setting off, and Facebook volition upload higher quality versions for you.

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

Furthermore, while I can't seem to observe a precise size limit for photograph uploads, uploading a JPEG where I showtime saved for spider web and and then ran through JPEGMini seems to look a fiddling better than but uploading the JPEG straight, even with the HD feature on. It'southward ever advantageous to save for spider web when possible, for Facebook.