Optimize Your Photos for Facebook Timeline

optimizing your photos prior to posting them on Facebook can give a more pleasing result than non-optimized photos. There are a few simple steps that can be followed to achieve more sharpness and detail than non-optimized photos on Facebook, which now supports viewing images which are 960 pixels wide to its full extend. Step 1- Open the image to be uploaded, in Adobe Photoshop latest version and resize the photo to make the longest side 960 pixels wide. ‘Bicubic Sharper’ option can be used to re sample the image in order to get the best possible sharpness for your image while resizing it.Step 2-If needed, the photo can be subjected to further sharpening by using a filter option- ‘Unsharp Mask’. If there are various layers to the image, the image has to be flattened. Creating a new top layer (Shift+Alt+E+Cmd) with the flattened image also works well. The setting of the filter with Radius 0.2 and Threshold at 0 level works perfectly.Step 3-This optimized image has to be saved next, preferably in such a way to get maximum quality with small file size. Saving under ‘Save-For-Web’ (Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S) is a good option which makes it ideal for online viewing by saving it at 72dpi. It is recommended to set 100% for jpeg setting and 100 for ‘Quality’ as opposed to ’60-80’ recommended by Photoshop, since 100 gives a better image than ’60-80’ when posted, due to Facebook downgrading your images.