Photos on Facebook

People using Facebook really love sharing photos on Facebook. It is really easy and fun sharing photos on Facebook. Fun, because your friends can like and comment on your photos. You can tag your friends in your photos and similarly your friends can tag you in their photos. And every photo you add or you are tagged in appears on your profile/timeline until you remove them.

One very advantageous thing of uploading pics is that even if you lose them by any chance, you can get them back from your profile.

You can share a single photo as you share a status or you can create a separate album and add pics to that. All the photos you share the way you share a status are automatically added to an album "Wall Photos" which is present on your profile.

How to add/upload photos?

If you wish to share a single pic, from your home page select "Add Photo/Video" and then select "Upload Photo/Video".
You can select any pic from your computer to upload and then post it.
To create an album, same thing, select "Add Photo/Video" then "Create Photo Album". After that you can select the pics you want to add to the new album you are about to create. To select multiple photos, just keep holding the "control" key and click on the pics. Finally upload.

There is one more way to add a photo. But only if you want to make it your profile pic. You can change the pic directly without adding it to any album. Just go to your profile/timeline, hover the mouse pointer over your profile pic and click on the tab that appears saying "Change picture" or "Edit profile photo". If you are using the old profile, it will take you to another page where you can add a new pic from your computer. For the timeline users you will get a drop-down menu from which you can select to add a new pic. Once you make a pic your profile pic, it is added to the album profile pics.

If you wish to post a photo to your friends wall, or on a page, just go to their profile/timeline and select "Add photo/video" and post.


How to create a new album?

You can do that from your home page. Just select "Add photo/video" and then "Create Photo Album".
One more way to do this is to go to your profile/timeline, then photos and you will see a "create album" tab on the top right of the page. Use that tab to create a new album.

How to tag friends in photos?

When you are uploading a single photo from your wall/home page, you can tag your friends using the icon at the extreme left bottom of the box which appears when you click on "Add photo/video". This pic will show you the icon.

As you can see there is a separate area saying "Who were you with?". This appears when you click on the icon. In this area, start typing the names of the friends you want to tag and then select the friend from the suggestions that appear.
You can also tag a friend after uploading the pic. Just open the pic, click on the tag photo tab and then on the photo click where you want to tag your friend. A square appears after you click on the pic and you are asked to type a name. Begin typing and select the name you want to.

There is one more icon besides the one used for tagging as you can see in the snap above. It is a balloon icon which you can use to add a location. On clicking the balloon, you will be asked to enter the location and as you did for tagging, start typing a name and then select from the suggestions.

If you have created a new album and uploaded numerous photos to it, you can tag your friends while the upload is still going on. When a photo is uploaded completely, it shows a thumbnail of that photo and you can tag you friends by clicking on the photo. When you click, a square appears with a text box under it where you have to enter a friends name.
If you are uploading too many photos, you can wait until the whole album is uploaded. After you have uploaded the album completely, you will see a page where Facebook groups some similar looking faces in different photos. You just have to tag your friend once and all the photos grouped will be tagged. It is not possible to precisely make out the same person in every pic so you might see the same friend again grouped separately.

You can tag any friend anytime by just viewing the pic and using the "Tag photo" tab.

How to remove a tag?

View the photo and click on the "Edit" tab and you will see the names of the people you have tagged in that pic. To remove a tag just click on the "x" that appears in front of the name of the friend you want to untag.

How to add photo to an existing album?

Go to your profile/timeline, then photos. Open the album you want to add new photos to and click on the "edit album" link present in the line just under the name of the album.
There will be a "Add photos" tab which allows you to add more pics to the same album.

NOTE: You can add 1000 photos to a single album. Not more than that.


How to delete an album?

For deleting the whole album, go to photos from your profile/timeline and open the particular album.
Click on the edit album link which is present just under the name of the album.
At the top right side you will find a few tabs. One of these tabs will have an icon of a garbage bin which is the delete tab. Use it to delete the album.


How to delete pics from an album?

Open the album you want to delete pics from. Click on the link "edit album"
That will show all the photos from the album.
Move the mouse pointer on the pic you want to delete and click on the downward arrow that appears. Then select remove this photo.

How to move photos to other album?

Same as the above thing. Go to the album, edit album, mouse over the pic you want to move. Click on the downward arrow and select move to other album.

How to change the album cover?

Again go to the album > edit album. Mouse over the pic which you want to be the cover of your album and click on the arrow that appears. Select make album cover.


Here is a snap which shows part of the page which appears when you go to an album and then click on edit album link:

Here, N is the name of the album. You can click on it to change it.
Just under the name there will be one more text field which is to add some description about the album.
Phoenix Mall is the place where the pics in this album were taken. When you click on that, you will see some suggestions, you can choose a place from those or you can start typing a name and then select from the suggestions.
Then there is the add photos tab to add more photos to the album.
Following it is the garbage bin icon which can be used to delete the complete album.
The next tab in this snap says friends which means this album is visible to friends only. You can click on it and change the visibility/privacy if you want.

To learn more about privacy for photos click here.

Privacy for photos on Facebook.

Sharing photos on Facebook is one of the most favourite things of almost every user.
Maybe that is why there are millions of photos are uploaded to Facebook every hour.
People like sharing their pictures with their friends and family through Facebook. Which is really simple and fun.
The catch is that there are some things you want to share with a group of people but don't want rest of the friends to see them. Or don't want your family members to see that.
This is very common with the pictures people share on Facebook. They don't want everyone to see each and every photo they share.
So here is something you might need to know which can help you to set the privacy for your photos as per your wish.

There are different types of albums on Facebook.

• Cover photos (only if you have the timeline)
• Profile pictures
• Wall photos
• Albums created by you
• Mobile uploads
• And other albums which are created by some apps

Besides these albums you have created on your profile, there will be other pics which appear on your profile which are not included in any album.
These are the pics you are tagged in by your friends.

Let me just tell you about these albums in brief.

Cover photos: These are public by default and everyone who can see your profile can see the photos in this album.
There is no way to change the setting of this album to anything other than public. Facebook does not provide any option for setting the privacy for these pics. So when you upload anything to this album, make sure you wont have any problem even if the whole world is able to see that.

Profile pictures: They are the pics that you had set as your profile pic in the past and includes the current profile pic. Photos automatically get added to this album if you set any photo on Facebook as your profile pic. You can also add a new picture to this album by changing your profile picture.

Wall photos: This album includes all the photos you had shared on your wall directly and not added to any album. It is like sharing a status. You can decide the audience for every post. This means you can have different privacy setting for each photo here.

Albums you have created: These are the albums you create and add photos to them. You can set privacy for the whole album unlike the wall photos album where you have a choice to have different setting for every photo. You can make changes to the settings or the album(add photos/delete photos/delete album) any time you want.

Mobile uploads: This album contains all the photos you upload to Facebook using your mobile phone. It is same as the wall photos just that it contains the photos you upload from your mobile. Again, as i said it is similar to the wall photos album, you can have different privacy for every pic.

Other are the albums that contain the pics created by the apps on Facebook. These pics might have your friends tagged automatically. The privacy of these albums depends on the privacy you select while using that app. If any of your friends are tagged in that pic, then the pic will appear on their profile.

How to change the privacy/visibility of an album?

To change the privacy of an album, go to your photos page.
For that go to your profile/timeline, then photos.
If you are using the old profile, you will have to select photos from the page that appears. Here you can see the "Photos" link which you need to select:

This will take you to a page showing all the albums on your profile.
Each of the albums will have a pic which is from the album itself and right under the albums there will the name of the album, number of photos and an "Audience selector".
As the name says it, audience selector help you to set who can see that album.

In this pic you can see the audience selectors for the albums.
The way the audience selector icon appears tell you the current visibility or privacy setting.
If you click on this audience selector, you will get a drop-down menu from which you can select a different setting for that album.
You will get different options like friends, friends of friends, only me, custom and then there are the names of the lists on your profile.
You can select any of the options as per your need.
Friends, friends of friends and only me options do exactly what the name suggests. The custom option helps you to do more than the previous options. You can make the album visible to certain people/lists only or hide it from certain people/lists.
The names of the lists are to help you to quickly set the privacy listwise. You can check the names of the list you want to make the album visible to.
(Know more about Lists on Facebook)

As told earlier, you can't change the privacy of the cover photos album. Whoever can see your profile can see your cover pics aswell.

For the albums wall photos and mobile uploads, you can have different privacy for every photo. Just go to that album and look for the audience selector under the pic. Use the audience selector to select the visibility.