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January 16, 2014
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How to create High Quality Cover photo for Facebook?

  • January 16, 2014
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Hi everyone,

I know that Facebook reduces the resolution for Facebook cover page and profile picture. However, I have noticed that there are many Pages that uploaded beautiful Cover photo without any reduced resolution (apparently).

For example:

https://www.facebook.com/AeonVietnamPage

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1526621_254618648037254_1407746640_n.png

https://www.facebook.com/giadinhnestle

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/598520_658894077482390_166147655_n.png

You guys can also check out these pages, they have pretty awesome looking Timeline photos!

https://www.facebook.com/Pepsivietnam

https://www.facebook.com/7UPVietnam.fanpage

I've tried using the "magic" size format of 850 x 350 , but it seems that the quality will still be reduced no matter what. The above pages' photos are always pretty clear and not blur like normal pages.

Can anyone help me to inspect and suggest how I can do the same? Thank you

    2 replies

    August 15, 2014

    Hi, I´d like to share the procedure that I found to solve a very annoying problem that I had with the image of my cover on Facebook. When I upload my picture lost quality and I lost  some time trying to find a good resolution to solve my problem but I don´t find any good answer so I hope that this help to another people . First need to open your image in Illustrator and second you need to save your picture select the option to ¨save for Microsoft Office¨ then Facebook won't butcher your image I hope this helps you.

    antajansone
    Participant
    January 15, 2016

    It is amazing! THANK YOU!

    Doug A Roberts
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 16, 2014

    those are pngs, hence the lack of jpeg artefacts. did they come straight from facebook? i can't check from work.

    most of the time you see 'pixellation' on facebook its because its compressing whatever you upload into a low quality jpeg, not because of resolution.

    Vuong LuuAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    January 16, 2014

    Yes, I have included the link to the facebook site. You can click and see, they're actually in PNG format when uploaded to facebook. I just copied the image URLs and paste them into here

    Doug A Roberts
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 16, 2014

    as I said I can't check from work. can you not do the same, then? just make PNGs at that res and upload them?