Monday 6 August 2012

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.

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