The Maximum Size of a Photo in Facebook
Posted by Noah | Filed under technology
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Now Updated For The New Size!
Well as near as I can tell everyone is now able to upload and be shown the new Facebook image size. The largest photo you can have on Facebook is now 720×720px. That’s 42% larger (by area) than the old standard of 604×604px. It’s so big that it doesn’t fit into my blog template. Click the image to see how large it actually is.
So if you want to get picky about re-sizing your images for better quality and watching for artifacts you should shoot for 720 pixels either wide, tall or both.
It seems that no matter what you do Facebook re-compresses your images regardless of what their original file size might be, this equates to about a 50% quality setting in most apps but there seems to be no size it won’t re-compress, even if it actually makes the file bigger.
Mike makes a good point, you can find out more in his Facebook Gallery