Uploads To Fb - What Size

my uploads to fb are 800 pixels on the long side with watermark

I do nothing larger than 600 when I create ads

That's what mine have always been, Jessica. They look fine. I just can't see going to 2 1/2 x that - and of course ours have no watermarks as they were entered for in-house contests. Good point. Thanks.

I would really like to know if it makes any difference in the end what quality image unscrupulous people can get from us.

I post them full size (6000X4000, about 8 megabytes) and let Facebook figure out how to resize it for their page. I'm sure they will, but I think you're better off with a bigger starting point for the sake of having it look good there rather than posting something small and having it run through the same resizing algorithm to fit the page. I also have to confess that if someone steals my image, I'd be flattered, so that's not much of a worry to me. There's no way for a user to control file security on social media except not uploading it but I don't really think that Facebook thieves have much of an impact on who buys physical prints on FAA. Screen captures only get even worse when they're resized, so they don't really make much sense from the point of view of someone who wants a print.

If I post an image/photograph for display I use either 750 or 800 for the width (the vast majority of my posts are oriented horizontally. I watermark these images with my name and my USPictures.com URL.

If I create an image specifically for an ad I keep the dimensions to 600 on the long side. I also ensure there is plenty of margin around any text - so it shows well on all devices.



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~ Bill Swartwout Photography

Doug, you do realize that our photos on Facebook can be downloaded by anyone. So they can be downloading your hi-res images!

i'd keep it small, and watermark it. 850px or say the 900px we have here, with a watermark should be fine. the mark is just to show its yours should it travel.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

doug, it may look small, but its still full sized. i've seen this done on webpages, they take a huge image, then shrink it in html, its still huge. if i can download your huge file - there is no need to buy from you.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Totally agree with Doug Swanson.

I do not resize them at all.

I just went and tried to download several of my Facebook images that were originally done at full resolution.

You can only download a low res image. 900 X xxx and 100kb is the largest I was able to capture. Most were smaller than that.

I knew this was the case but I wanted to check it out in case something changed.

Usually I post them around 1500pxx1500 px or smaller 72dpi and try to keep under 1mb or so, FB will resize and format anyway. but if downloaded and printed doesn't look so good

Just did several more captures....

Largest was 752x502.

On all of these the full res images, at least 4800 X xxxx was the size I uploaded

I don't upload images to fb except by URL from my AW site.

Thank you all. This has been very helpful.

"Doug, you do realize that our photos on Facebook can be downloaded by anyone. So they can be downloading your hi-res images!" - Yeah, you can but the one you download has been rescaled and compressed (to speed page delivery) so that it ends up being a relatively small file, eg., I just downloaded an image from FAA, posted on FB, about 5X8 on the page and it was only 173 Kb. That's the equivalent of a screen grabber, not a likely target for art thieves.

I create 1000 px on the long side digital files for all of my work. I store them in one of two files I have just for this, but NOT only for FB.

The images I also bring down to 72 ppi.

I understand FB specifically was asked about, but the question goes to other SM. I only put out low rez images.

Dave