I've uploaded the photo as it appears on my businesses facebook page. Note the discolouration on the concrete heads cheeks. Blurriness of the coloured pots and clock strap. I'm just not happy with it but what do you think? My competitors photos seem to be a little better
But you can upload pics with 2048px wide and 5 - 10 MB without any problems. Facebook resize your pics in a good quality.
You can check it any time on your account. switch your privacy (Who should see this?) to ONLY ME ....
Taking images at a smaller resolution before compression is a good choice, there is no point in creating information that is going to be thrown away. This prevents unnecessary compression so you are losing less and retaining more. Considering the world today 100Kb is not a very realistic size for FB to be touting. Personally I would focus more on retaining quality and less on file size, then upload the images and see what happens, if the images look good go and have a Tea and a biccy and have a pat on the back moment
I think 960px is fine for viewing, I don't think 2048px gives you anything more, also remember that a lot of people view on laptops @ 1366 x768 or something like that and will have not much more that a 15.6" screen, Desktopers will have the same or a bit more, and that screen will be set at 1080 x 1920. So, a 2048px image viewed at 100% is going to have to be scrolled. Obviously there are gamers with the mandatory 3 screens at 32" and us Apple bunnies with 27" and retina but the majority will be fine with 960px and even 720px
Guys you've all been incredibly helpful, thank you very much. Ive been in this mindset (honestly) that 2048 is the higher pixel density which equals better quality. I use a MacBook retina 15" so maybe i notice when the quality isnt there due too lower res images but like a lot of you day most use smart phones.
Thanks for your comment, the answer is no, im getting great results when i export from affinity, the pics look very professional, its only that social media upload i struggle with and i have GOT to nail this as social media will make up a lot of whats my business is once i go live.
Hang on, im completely confused. So your now saying you upload images to insta at 3000px? Surely thats a massive file size and will get compressed to hell? This is going against what you and everyone has said all throughout this thread isnt it? What and i not understanding here?
@SteveSmith it depends on what you want. E.g. Insta is a hobby. I dont check the quality. Sometimes I upload pics 6000x4000px from AP. The compression from Instagram AND Facebook is sometimes very well. If I dont like the result, I resize the photos, especially when I combine Photos & Text or there are delicate color gradients.
How ever, create a new Facebook Page. But do not publish the page to public! Then test, test, test ... view the results on mobile devices and so on. Only the cover photo makes sometimes troubles. So I try again and again.
Most of my photos are exactly the suggested PIXEL sizes, but in HIGH Quality.
What am I doing wrong...I bought Affinity yesterday, edited my first photo and was going to put it on Facebook. I saved it to my desktop, went to face book, and when I drag it over, NOTHING. So then I went to insert button on Facebook and tried to import it into a post that way...the picture is grayed out (I cannot pic it) Do I need to save it differently, and if so, what steps do I need to take to have it an acceptable JPEG format for uploading to the net?
I set up my Shopify with the Facebook/Instagram sales channel. Everything appears to be working - catalog synced, pixel connected, I can edit my Facebook shop in the Meta Business Builder and view it live there, and I can tag products in posts.
The problem is that if I try to view any of those tagged products or even the shop itself on Facebook via a web browser on a computer, I get the error, "This content isn't available right now." If I view the same tagged products or shop link on a mobile device - via the FB app or even through a web browser, it all works fine.
Can anyone think of anything I can try to fix this? I've already tried multiple browsers, multiple computers, incognito windows, cleared cache, tried a Mac, tried Windows, rebooted all computers. I even took my computer off my xfinity wifi and hooked it to my 5G T-Mobile hotspot to see if a different network connection would help (it didn't). I don't think the problem is on my end as far as networking goes because several people have commented on my page/post that the shop links aren't working, and the ones having trouble are all on computers.
Are there any settings between Shopify and Facebook that would be relevant? I've gone through settings on both sides and can't find anything (and since it seems to be working as intended on mobile, I'm guessing it's set up correctly).
I'm out of ideas. If anyone has ideas or any way to contact FB for help, I'd greatly appreciate it! I decided to use my Shopify instead of Etsy because doing Etsy required manual inputting of all shop items... but with the number of hours I've spent trying to make this work, I could've been done via Etsy already lol. I had another Shopify shop with FB integration and it was never any trouble like this! Thank you!
Our team was able to review your concern and they advised that due to the recent changes, Meta Shops Ads team recently removed Facebook shops on Desktop and Mobile web in order to focus new feature development on the Shops experiences across the Facebook and Instagram mobile apps.
This update will bring the following feature changes (On Web Browser):
1.Removal of View Shop button & Shops tab from Facebook Pages
2.Users will not be able to access Shop Storefront and Products
a. This includes Collections, Your Items, Search, Wishlist, etc.
3.Users will not be able to access Product Details Pages
a. Facebook Product Tags on web will also not lead to Product Detail Pages
4.Facebook Cart will be hidden
a. If accidentally visible, the cart will intentionally be empty or emptied
The good thing here is that buyer can still be able to access Shop button on Mobile App in your devices.
I hope the above clarifies and I want to thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. We are always looking for ways to better our service.
(HOLY COW what a terrible implementation of this change). This also makes me re-evaluate using Facebook Shops as far as time/effort vs reward. I know that something like only 1% of people exclusively use Facebook on a computer, but if you include people that use both a computer and a mobile device, it's like 20% of users (2022 data). Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon. I use both.
I'm having the same problem and spent an hour yesterday on Meta chat only for them to send me an article from 2020! The article stated Facebook shops would only work on mobile first, then laptops and computers. My shop was working on my Mac Air less than a month ago! When I try to search for why my band pages shop won't work on a laptop, all of the suggestions are outdated. Please let me know if you find a solution and I will do the same for you! Basically the band page I manage for Crucifer, our shop works perfect on a mobile device, and it displays the shop button. When I use my laptop, work computer, my wife's laptop, the shop is missing, the shop button is gone. If I try typing in the URL for my shop, that big grey/black screen pops up with the picture of a wrench saying this content isn't available right now. I have tried messing with every setting to no avail. Anyone else dealing with this?
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