A few tips on Facebook photos workflow: starting form editing photos for Facebook, resizing photos to proper dimensions both for profile pic and album photo, saving with the right quality and easy uploading photos to Facebook. While Facebook photos seems like a no brainer, anyone would prefer to have nice looking profile pic and photo albums to show their friends. These tips will help you to manage Facebook photos quickly, easily and efficiently.

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1. Edit photos for Facebook
You can use a number of free Photoshop alternatives to quickly improve your photos for Facebook: increase contrast, sharpen, remove red eyes. I also highly recommend free and easy to use image viewer and editor XnView. If you’re using Photoshop, check out these Photoshop tips.

2. Resize to proper Facebook photo dimensions
Facebook photo engine resizes any photos you upload unless you follow these rules on image dimensions. Every time the image is resized it loses some quality. It is strongly recommended that you scale the image before adding it to Facebook.

Facebook Profile photo size
Width: 200 pixels
Height: up to 600 pixels.
You can start from 200 pixels if you want your profile pic to be square and increase height if you want a vertical profile pic.

facebook profile photo

Facebook Album photo size
Width: 720 pixels
Height: 720 pixels.

If you upload landscape (horizontal) photo on Facebook it should be 720×540 , if it’s a portrait mode (vertical pic) then demensions would be 540×720.

facebook album photo

3. Save photos for Facebook
After you edit your photos and resize them, try to save photos for upload on Facebook with maximum quality available.
Recommended file formats
PNG 24bit.
JPEG maximum file size (for example, 95% or 9-10 in Photoshop settings).

4. How to upload photos on Facebook

I highly recommend free Facebook photo uploader Bloom (Windows, Mac, Linux).

bloom facebook

It lets you upload in bulk your photos and videos to Facebook (more than 200 photos supported), tag people, import photo Exif info into the photo caption, download albums and view your friends’ photos.

You can upload photos to a new or an existing album. Bloom also works behind a Proxy server.