417 Preparing images for your Facebook timeline

- In this movie, we'll take a look…at a few different ways to post…general images to a Facebook timeline.…And even though it's a pretty straightforward process,…a lot of the standard rules don't apply.…For example, you would think that you would wanna post…the highest quality image that you can.…But oftentimes, that does not work out very well.…In fact, more often than not, you wanna go ahead…and save your image as a .jpeg file…with a medium quality setting.…And let me show you why that is.…Now you could be working with a photographic image,…of course, I'm working with this highly graphical image…so that we can easily make out…the jpeg compression artifacts.…

Because Facebook invariably turns your images into jpegs.…Alright, so the first thing I'm gonna do is take this image,…which is currently advertised as being…the highest quality image that you can post to Facebook.…2048 pixels square.…Turns out, 2048 pixels really only works for covers.…But let's take a look at how timeline images fare.…I'm gonna go up to the file menu and choose safe for web.…