Whether yous're a working professional or not, uploading your images to social networks is generally a standard for about, and if you lot're going to be shooting those images on high-quality dedicated cameras or loftier-quality phone cameras you'll want them to look the best they can. Unfortunately, posting highest-resolution images isn't the default for many social networks. Perhaps near notably, Facebook is notorious for taking your beautifully crafted image and reducing it to expect like rubbish. We'll assist y'all fix that.

It warrants saying that uploading to Facebook from a desktop platform will generally yield better results than mobile merely even then the images generally don't expect as proficient as possible if y'all don't accept some parameters into account – substantially tailoring the prototype for FB before inputting into FB. Today, notwithstanding, nosotros'll focus on a quick tip for uploading to Facebook from mobile and getting the all-time images yous can, and really, it's nothing more than a setting change inside the Facebook app, and there'due south a quick video at the terminate showing exactly how to.

*You tin open images in a new tab to see the difference – it shows upwardly quite prominently inside the Facebook App.

Low res: 960 ten 640, 49 KB
Hd: 2048 x 1365, 180 kb

The Facebook mobile app essentially allows a user to upload in low quality and what they call 'Hard disk', with the default setting existence low quality. To change that all that'southward needed is to go into the chief FB mobile Menu > Settings > Business relationship Settings > Videos and Photos, then toggle the 2 sliders over to the right. There's one slider for uploading video in HD and the other for uploading photos in Hard disk drive. Toggle them and that's pretty much it, and the difference in image quality is pregnant. Hither'southward a brusk video going through information technology, and some sample images in both low res and Hard disk drive.

In case yous're wondering, this applies to whatever images you lot upload regardless of what yous shot them in – it doesn't matter if yous transferred a high-res file from a WiFi photographic camera or something, FB mobile will significantly downgrade it. Generally, always go on these tabs toggled on.

Low Res: 640×960, 46 KB
Hard disk: 1367 × 2048, 151 kb

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

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Shot on an RX100 MK1 at ISO1600

This is problematic now, because equally photo professionals nosotros're judged on the quality of the work people see, and there's no denying Facebook is a major source of eyes-on-work; It's significant for many of our businesses.

As that's the instance, when nosotros upload images to Facebook these days, we're not simply uploading phone snaps, but using our phones and tablets to upload proper, edited, polished representations of our work. And then, without further a-do, hither'due south the fix that will allow your all-time work shine through:

From the Facebook Mobile App become to Settings>Videos & Photos. Your screen progression should appear equally below:

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Once in that location, you'll exist greeted with the following menu, and all you'll need to do information technology toggle those switches to the right to plough the default low-res setting off, and Facebook will upload higher quality versions for y'all.

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

Furthermore, while I can't seem to observe a precise size limit for photo uploads, uploading a JPEG where I starting time saved for web and so ran through JPEGMini seems to look a little better than just uploading the JPEG straight, even with the Hard disk drive feature on. It's always advantageous to save for web when possible, for Facebook.