Photos: Facebook Size
Many people want to display photos on their blog, on the the Internet. As a customer, the user of the photo, I want the photo to biggest size possible. As a photographer, the producer of the photo and the seller of the photo, I want the photo to be as small as possible.
As a professional photographer, I need to show photos on my websites. As a professional photographer, I don't want them stolen by somebody for their own website without me getting paid. People need to see the photo clearly, and the thumbnail generated from the photo must also be clear. Google does capture the photos, create a thumbnail of the photos and display the thumbnails for people doing the searches. All these conflicting requirements and I'm not talking about Google and image search. How they rank images…
From my “vast” experience, ie the school of hard-knocks or how many screw-ups I have done, the maximum size of photo should as at 72 dpi, in the sRGB colour space aka Facebook size. Cropping would reduce the size of the imaged displayed.
The photo should:
- Be around 500 pixels by 333 pixels for an uncropped photo
- Be at 72 dpi
- Be a JPEG
- Use the sRGB colour space
- Have a sizable watermark and like the 3 bears: not too big, not too small
The IPTC field of the JPEG must be filled in with:
- Keywords
- Title
- Location
- Caption
- Description
- Copyright
- Exif data is not required
The digital photo can be sold for the price of around a 4x6, or slightly less than your regular 4x6.
- People can and will make print out of these digitals.
- There's nothing you can do to stop them. They bought it, they think that they own it.
- You best bet is to explain and show them the difference between a professionally printed photo and the low resolution digital photo printed at a 1 hour photo.
So why is this called Facebook size? Because it is the most standard size used by people on Facebook. People are used to photos of that size on Facebook, just like to 4x6 or 10x15cm photos in the printed world.