Whether you lot're a working professional or not, uploading your images to social networks is generally a standard for about, and if y'all're going to be shooting those images on high-quality dedicated cameras or high-quality telephone cameras you'll want them to await the all-time 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 it to look like rubbish. We'll help you set up that.

It warrants maxim that uploading to Facebook from a desktop platform will generally yield better results than mobile but even then the images generally don't await every bit good as possible if you don't take some parameters into business relationship – substantially tailoring the image for FB before inputting into FB. Today, however, we'll focus on a quick tip for uploading to Facebook from mobile and getting the best images yous tin can, and actually, information technology's nothing more than a setting change inside the Facebook app, and there's a quick video at the end showing exactly how to.

*Y'all can open images in a new tab to see the deviation – it shows upwards quite prominently inside the Facebook App.

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

In case you're wondering, this applies to whatsoever images y'all upload regardless of what you shot them in – it doesn't matter if you transferred a loftier-res file from a WiFi camera or something, FB mobile will significantly downgrade it. Generally, e'er keep these tabs toggled on.

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Your Photos Are Not Uploading To Facebook In Hard disk Past Default | Here'due south The Set

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This is problematic now, because as photograph professionals we're judged on the quality of the work people see, and there'southward no denying Facebook is a major source of eyes-on-work; Information technology's pregnant for many of our businesses.

As that'south the example, when nosotros upload images to Facebook these days, nosotros're not but uploading phone snaps, but using our phones and tablets to upload proper, edited, polished representations of our work. So, without further a-do, here's the fix that will let your best work smoothen through:

From the Facebook Mobile App become 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 carte, and all yous'll need to exercise it toggle those switches to the right to turn the default low-res setting off, and Facebook will upload higher quality versions for you.

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Those of yous who are discerning photographers are probably wondering what size this 'Hd' feature maxes out at, and as far as I tin tell it's 2048×2048, and video can be input as 1080p or even 4K, merely volition be downscaled to 720. It appears that using your ain software to downscale the video to 720 yields a meliorate result than Facebook's own algorithm.

Furthermore, while I tin't seem to notice a precise size limit for photo uploads, uploading a JPEG where I commencement saved for spider web and then ran through JPEGMini seems to wait a picayune better than merely uploading the JPEG straight, even with the Hard disk drive feature on. It'due south always advantageous to save for web when possible, for Facebook.