Those who use Facebook, almost certainly, will have uploaded some photos to share it with friends. Especially those who upload photos to Facebook more often will have noticed that images can lose quality after sharing.
This impression is absolutely real because Facebook compresses the images uploaded by users so that they take up less space on their servers.
There is to understand them, after all it is estimated that about 350 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day and keeping all this data forever is something that only such a rich company can support.
To lighten the Facebook load, by default, it compresses the uploaded images making them smaller and, in some cases, degrading their quality.
If this becomes a problem or if you want the photos uploaded to Facebook to remain in their original format without losing quality, even if it is not possible to disable Facebook compression, there are some ways to minimize the effect and optimize the upload. of photos on Facebook .
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1) Upload images that are at least 2048 pixels wide.
According to Facebook guidelines, 2048px is the ideal width for high resolution images .
So if the photos are still compressed, however, they will still have a higher resolution.
2) Select the "High Quality" option when uploading a photo to an album.
Facebook has a semi hidden option to request to maintain quality, which does not appear if you upload the photo from the profile directly.
To use it you need to create a new photo album and during creation check the " High Quality " box.
All photos that are uploaded to this album will be kept in better resolution, with less compression.
3) As already explained in the past on how to create the cover of the Facebook profile, if you want to optimize the image to the best you need to crop it in the ideal size 851px by 315px. If they are smaller, the cover photo will have an elongated or pixelated appearance.
4) To share photos found on the internet, it is not convenient to save and then upload them to Facebook but it is better to share them by making a copy and paste of the direct link.
Not only is this method easier and faster, but it should also give better quality.
To quickly get the link of almost any photograph found online, just press on it with the right button and select "Copy image URL".
5) Use an alternative hosting site.
To share a photo without giving Facebook the opportunity to compress it, you can first upload it to a different photo site and then share the link as seen in the previous point.
One of these sites is Imgur but even better now you can use Google Photos.
First you upload the image to Google Photos, then from the site or app you can share it on Facebook quickly, maintaining the maximum quality.
6) Use the Share button
If you find a photo on Facebook that we like, instead of downloading and reloading it on our profile, it is better to use the Share button.
Not only does this reward those who shared it before, but it maintains the quality that would decrease after further loading and subsequent compression.
7) Avoid bad habits that ruin images
There are some common habits (such as vertical videos) that should be limited as much as possible when sharing photos on Facebook to prevent the uploading of ugly images because they are too compressed:
- Never download and reload from Facebook, as mentioned in point 6
- Do not share the saved photos using the screenshot on the phone (when photographing the screen).
- Do not take low resolution screenshots of high resolution images using your computer.
- Do not share small low resolution photos.
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