I wrote an article in 2012 that gave a guide on uploading photos to facebook.

Since then Facebook has changed the ways in how it compresses images and quality.

Below is the best options for uploading to facebook. Have a read of this article for more detailed reasoning on why.

• Upload to anywhere on your Profile: Facebook compresses and resizes your images. Bad.
• Upload to any Group: Facebook compresses and resizes your images. Bad.
• Upload to a Message you’re sending: Facebook compresses and resizes your images. Bad.
• Upload via any mobile device: Facebook compresses and resizes your images. Bad.
• Upload via any other site, app or platform into Facebook: Facebook compresses and resizes your images. Bad.
• Upload full resolution anywhere on Facebook at all: Facebook compresses and resizes your images. Bad.

For the best results (and the only way facebook does not compress)

• Create a new Album in your Page, and name it whatever you like (“Portfolio” is a common choice)
• Click to view the Album
• Click on “Add Photos”
• Select the horizontal or vertical photo (see below the settings)
• As it starts to upload, make sure the bottom left checkbox “High Quality” is checked
• Let the upload finish, then continue

If you did everything correctly, your image should have been accepted by the Facebook Page system and unchanged. As such, it should look amazing (or how it looked when you saved it on your drive, at the very least).

Horizontal Settings

• In photoshop…
• Resize image up to 2048px wide. This is the biggest Facebook supports, no point going any bigger.
• In the Image Size options, be sure that “Resample” is checked and “Bicubic (smooth gradients)” is selected in the pulldown
• Go to the Save For Web function (File/Save For Web)
• Select the format: JPEG
• Quality: 100-  You can, however, use as low as 75-80 with no obvious quality difference)
• Blur: 0
• Uncheck “Progressive”
• Uncheck “Optimized”
• Check “Convert to sRGB” and use “Internet Standard (No Color Management)” from the pulldown
• Embed Metadata as you see fit in the next pulldown menu
• Save the file on computer somewhere.
• Upload to facebook (as stated at the top of this post)
• Revel in the epic quality of your images on Facebook

Portrait Settings

• In photoshop…
• Go to Image Size (Image/Image Size) and resize to 900 px tall
• In the Image Size options, be sure that “Resample” is checked and “Bicubic (smooth gradients)” is selected in the pulldown, click Ok
• Go to the Save For Web function (File/Save For Web)
• Select the format: PNG-24
• Uncheck “Transparency”
• Uncheck “Interlaced”
• Check “Embed Color Profile”
• Check “Convert to sRGB” and use “Internet Standard (No Color Management)” from the pulldown
• Embed Metadata as you see fit in the next pulldown menu
• Save the file on computer somewhere.
• Upload to facebook (as stated at the top of this post)
• Revel in the epic quality of your images on Facebook