How to Put Pictures on Facebook

Facebook is the popular social networking site that's all the rage today. However, for people new to Facebook, the site is not the most user-friendly, and can easily get lost in the complex interface. So if you are a new user of Facebook and want to share some pictures with friends and family on Facebook, this article should be of immense help. Remember to bookmark this page, since you might have to come back here for reference until you get a hang of it.

Though Facebook is a very popular social networking site, it is definitely not one of the easiest sites to use! Although Facebook is feature rich, the user interface can be fairly complicated. Do not worry, here is the most straight forward way to upload photos to Facebook.

1. Login to your Facebook account, and from the top navigation menu select "Profile", this should take you to your profile page. Facebook Navigation
2. Below your status message you will notice a series of tabs, click on the tab that says "Photos". Profile page tabs .
3. You should see a button to your right which says "Create a Photo Album" (Facebook Image Album ), click on it and you're on your way to upload and share your fabulous pictures with friends and family. Remember the pictures are controlled by the Privacy or Sharing settings that controls who can and cannot see your images.
4. Uploading photos to your album is easy from the image upload screen that comes up.

Yet another shortcut for posting images on Facebook is as follows:

1. Once you're logged into Facebook, see the Status message box and right below it is the attach tab with options for attaching photos, videos and more. Status Message Posting options .
2. Now, click on the Photo button. You'll get a drop-down menu to upload your photo if you're looking to upload a single image as well as an option to upload a new album. Click on your choice and you're ready to share your images with the world of Facebook users. Attach Options .

Facebook also provides you with the ability to upload images directly from various imaging and image management applications. This makes things easier for sophisticated users who use special software to store and catalog their images, since the workflow becomes much easier to handle. Let's take a look at how this is done from the following 3 popular applications:

Picasa:

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Picasa is a popular image management tool from Google. It allows you to categorize and catalog your photographs. Ideally, most users use this as their tool of choice to manage their photos on Windows, sort of like the iPhoto for Mac. Now there is a Facebook application that is available which will allow you to export pictures directly from Picasa to Facebook. The Picasa Uploader is a simple application that allows you to either upload a single image or a whole album.

Aperture & iPhoto:

Aperture is the popular image management application from Apple for Mac users. It is a fabulous piece of software and is targeted towards

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Lightroom:

Lightroom is the professional image management software from Adobe and is used extensively on the Mac and Windows platform. A third party add-on provides Lightroom with the ability to export images to Facebook. The "Export to Facebook " plugin is simple to use and allows you to export a single image or an album. It should be noted that this plugin is only compatible with Lightroom version 2.0 and only allows uploading images to personal pages and not to groups and fan pages.

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