Uploading photographs to Facebook – Step by step using a browser.
Today I am going to take time off photography and talk a bit about sharing your photos, this is really for beginners but are we not all beginners at something?
There are some issues you should consider before uploading any images to any online services, one of these is the licence and copyrights of the service. In the instance of Facebook, you are giving them a lot of rights by uploading any images to it. Please read the Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities carefully before you upload any images to it. Particularly section 2, which states (last updated on April 22, 2010):
You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").
Now that we have the legalities of of the way, here are a few tips before you upload any images to any social sites:
- Resize your images to a maximum of 600 pixels on the long side.
- Compress them to at least 70% and save them in JPG format
- Make sure you save them in a separate folder that you can easily find again (I called mine Facebook) and do not overwrite your original photo.
Now, here is how to upload images to Facebook, for cross operating system compatibility’s sake I will be using Mozilla Firefox as my browser, though this should not matter.
First, to create an album go to your profile and click on Photos
ad the following screen will appear:
Fill it in and click on Create album, this will bring you to this screen:
If you click “Select photos” the process can be lengthy and not very friendly, I advise using the Java Uploader. You will need the Java plugin to do this so allow it to download. Click “Install Missing plug-ins…” on the right top corner of your browser. Should you encounter a problem you may acquire the Java plug-in here: http://www.java.com/en/download/inc/windows_new_xpi.jsp
Once Java is installed you will get the obligatory “waiting for…” screen
But it is well worth the pain.
Now you can select and rotate your images at will before uploading them as shown bellow.
When you ready to upload, click Upload and you will get this screen
Followed by “Upload Successful!, click OK
Facebook will then redirect you to the Edit Album Screen, edit your caption here.
Then click “Publish Now” and you are done, you have successfully created an album.
There are many more function feel free to explore.
