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Vuong Luu
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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

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    Anonymous
    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.

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      darkoa23
      Participant
      September 10, 2015

      farebalk‌, you my friend, deserve a medal thanks!

        Doug A Roberts
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        Doug A RobertsCommunity 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.

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        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

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        joebcollins
        Participant
        January 16, 2014

        sorry but I'm not sure what you really mean. I'm just asking about how those pages can upload the pictures at such good quality without being severely affected by the stupid Facebook system. I tried using PNG before but cannot do the same. btw, I don't know what "work" you're talking about, if those above,  then they are not my work @@


        Here is what I do (its a little different as we use an image and vector art): https://www.facebook.com/KellyCookRealEstateGroup?ref=hl

        In your final version "save for web"- png24 open in photoshop verify your size of 850x351 at 72 dpi. 

        If your size and resolution is good, upload the .png  This has proven to get the best results.  Also when you create your art make sure that you have checked "align to pixel grid".

        Good luck

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