For a long time I had been noticing that photos lose quality when uploading them to Facebook. I assumed it was a compression issue. But it didn't make much sense for it to be just that, because the quality they lost was too notable. The truth is that it took me a while to realize something, and that is that the Facebook app is configured by default to upload photos in standard quality, and not in HD. Luckily, it is a very easy option to change.
The quality of the uploads sometimes depends on the server and Facebook itself, which usually stores millions of files of this type and does not always do so in this quality. The social network leaves some tricks to improve the upload quality, which in the end is something normal in this sense, it is important to do everything step by step.
How to upload photos to Facebook in HD
We know that at Facebook they are very clear that they do not want users to spend their entire data rate using the application, and that is why they strive to optimize the use of data as much as possible. This happens to such a degree that, by default, when uploading photographs to the social network, they are uploaded in standard quality, and not in high quality, which causes a lot of resolution to be lost.
For a normal photograph, it may not be too relevant, but the truth is that many of us end up using Facebook to save memories. In other cases, even the photographs we upload are of high quality and we upload them to promote our photographic activity, or at least to share them with other users.
Be that as it may, it is not at all strange that we want to upload the photos to Facebook in HD. Luckily, this is easy to achieve. The only thing you have to do is activate this option in the app, and that is not difficult at all.
You just have to go to Settings within the application, since the first section is precisely called App Settings. Once here, the option Upload photos in HD will appear. You just have to activate it, because it is deactivated by default, and all the photos you upload will be uploaded in high resolution.
Prevents them from being reduced by default
The social network will reduce it by default, all so that it does not overload your line, if you go for data it is advisable not to do it too much by having to pull it. One of the things to study is whether it is worth it or not, so try to do this whenever you are from your computer and connected to an ADSL/Cable/Fiber optic network, it is recommended.
It usually comes somewhat hidden, reaching it will take at least a minute, because there are many settings available in terms of configuration by the Meta social network. You must go through the well-known settings, which you have on the left side, at least on the computer, while on the mobile you have to access your profile and scroll down to the bottom.
In order to prevent them from reducing and increasing with quality, do the following steps:
- Launch the app on your Android device
- Now go to your "Profile" and click on the image, it will be necessary to go to the bottom in a specific way
- Click on “Settings” and then you must do the same in “Settings and privacy”
- Click on the "Settings" button once the options open again, which are quite a few.
- Go to the bottom and go to the “Multimedia content” section
- Choose the video and photo setting, it is at the top and visible
- Go to the “Video and Photo Settings” preference
- Activate the aforementioned box, which says "Upload videos in HD and upload photos in HD", leave this mark and close the settings to then upload content in high quality
Each of the things that are uploaded will appear of much higher quality, so you will have the option of downloading it in HD, which is what is done when uploading and respecting the qualities. Not just any photo will do, it has to have at least one camera output of this type for it to be in high definition.
The next step, review and prepare the photos
The next step after setting the photo and video upload quality on Facebook We have no choice but to adjust our images to said output. You have tools that take care of this automatically, so you won't have any problems with them showing up on your phone.
One of people's favorites is PhotoShop, which has a free application, valid for this case as long as you make some parameters and save the image in HD (High Definition). It also happens on other networks, where the image almost never respects the standard, which is something that should be studied.
For example, if you use PhotoShop on your Android device, you have to do the following:
- The first thing will be to download PhotoShop Express, available in the Play Store (link below)
- Install and give the corresponding permissions, it will ask you to do it with the photo gallery
- Once this step is done, open the application and choose the photo, for this you have the images tab
- Go to the “Image size” section, set the HD quality, which will have 720 pixels x output
- If you have chosen it, now go to the "Save" option and click on it
- After this, click on "Replace the original" and then the next step will be to upload it to Facebook, so that the people who follow you can see it, and if there are many they will see it in high quality
After this you have the image in HD quality, to upload to this network and keep on the phone, which in the end will be worth it from now on because they are kept in an appropriate size. The photographs taken by a phone with a medium-high camera have the output size when you take it, that's another thing you have to know.