The Maximum Size of a Photo in Facebook

Posted by Noah | Filed under technology

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If you like photography or web development consider following me on Twitter. You can also check out my photo blog, which isn’t just a bunch of pictures of my family.

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 720x720px. That’s 42% larger (by area) than the old standard of 604x604px. It’s so big that it doesn’t fit into my blog template. Click the image to see how large it actually is.

720 x 720px

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

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Permalink | July 27th, 2008

3 Responses to “The Maximum Size of a Photo in Facebook”

  1. Lucas Watson Says:
    April 25th, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    i love photo blogs, there is a saying that a picture speaks a thousand words and this saying is also true for blogs that mostly displays photos.

  2. Sacramento Wedding Photographer Says:
    June 13th, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    Thanks for the post, and for taking the time to create the useful reference picture.

  3. Chloe Davies Says:
    October 5th, 2010 at 1:00 am

    photoblogs are cool and i maintain at least two of them.’`

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