Your Uploaded Photos in Facebook Gets Destroyed, Here’s How to Save Them Better
If you are mainly using Facebook to post and backup your photos, Do you notice that Facebook lowers your beautiful photos’ resolution and size when uploaded? If you care about the quality and resolution of your photos, I recommend placing them in Google Plus. They get auto enhanced and uploaded at a way higher resolution of 2048px than Facebook’s 800×600 limit.
What makes Google Plus better than Facebook?
Really efficient photo manager and uploader “Picasa”
makes it easy to create, sort, upload your albums, watermark your photos, tag people and even do photo effects in one
*Update, Picasa has been discontinued and replaced with Google Photos where you can store unlimited high resolution photos and edit photos. Full resolution photos will take up your storage.
Auto Awesome
After uploading your photos, Google picks out certain photos, enhances it and gets placed in an Auto Awesome album. I noticed that it took 3 similar photos and combined it into a motion image.
View the animation sample here
Tip: Your videos can be monetized if you upload them to YouTube
Photo details
Each of your photo shows information about
Location
Date taken
Dimensions
File name
File size
Camera
Focal Length
Exposure
F Number
ISO
Camera make
Flash (used or not used)
Exposure Bias
like this:
Auto Backup
your photos from your mobile phone can be set to auto backup to Google Plus
Communities
Google plus makes it easy to join group discussions based on your interests.
Ad free
no annoying repetitive irrelevant ads showing on your news feed like Facebook does
Simple, clean, better font style and sized timeline
Hashtags are organized and set to auto hide when not hovered. (they changed this recently just like how Facebook and Twitter show hashtags) 🙁
Works with other Google Services you already use
If you use Blogger or Google Docs, you can access your uploaded photos to use in your blog post, documents, sheets, and presentations.
Cons
While Google Plus has more nice features when it comes to your photos, integrates with your email, documents and blogs.
It still struggles as being the main social media platform here in the Philippines.
Personally I think it’s better than Facebook, it’s just that too many people are already rooted in Facebook since it also syncs with more games, apps and websites which makes it less secure.
Looking forward to the day Google Plus becomes more mainstream.
One thing to note, photo albums take up your Google Drive storage which has a generous amount compared to Dropbox’s 2GB.
If you’re looking for a larger storage for your other photos, Flickr now offers 1TB photo storage space
Who should use Google Plus?
This is for you if you want
- your photos to be stored at a better quality
- have instant digital scrapbooks (disabled recently since they launched Google Photos)
- an easier way of managing your albums, photos, tagging, and effects in one tool
- your photos from your mobile phone to be backed up and ready to share on your plus profile.
- if you use Blogger and Google Drive, you will have a more convenient way of accessing and using your photos on your posts and documents
- if you are annoyed with Facebook’s advertising
- if you are sick of Facebook’s complicated interface and rules
I have re-uploaded some of my photos from their original quality and migrating some albums from Facebook to Google Plus. I’ll still use Facebook though, just for messaging and keep up with Group updates but not to store my photos anymore.
