Facebook Users Can Now Upload High-Res Photos, Bulk Tag Friends

by Amar Toor on October 1, 2010 at 09:00 AM

Facebook users everywhere will soon be able to upload photos in higher resolution, tag their friends with greater efficiency and browse through their friends' albums with more grace, thanks to a new set of features that will begin rolling out this month.

The social networking site's new photo features will allow users to upload photos in a 2048-pixel resolution, instead of the traditional 720-pixel resolution. "It's enough pixels to print out a 5x7 print at 300 DPI," says Facebook Photos product manager Sam Odio. In addition, Facebook members will no longer have to load a separate Web page to view each photo in a friend's album, thanks to a streamlined viewing function that automatically displays images, comments and tags directly on top of an already opened page. "It's essentially going to happen very quickly, right when you click on the thumbnail," Odio says. "If you click on a photo and an album from a news feed, you can still page through the entire album."

Facebook Photos: High Resolution and Bulk Tagging

Once a photo is uploaded, Facebook users can also tag their friends in bulk, instead of identifying them individually. While the site's new bulk tagging mechanism can reportedly detect when a user has tagged the same person twice, Facebook says it won't be using facial recognition technology anytime soon. "Picasa and iPhoto -- they'll detect a face and say, 'This is Sam,' and they'll suggest that it's Sam," Odin explains. "We're not doing that. We're not linking any faces to profiles automatically. Right now, we want to stay away from that because it's a very touchy subject."

Odin went on to say that the overhaul is primarily intended to make the photo viewing experience easier for Facebook's growing community, and, in particular, for those with chronically slow Internet connections. "Reliability is extremely important to us," he says. "The biggest problem in other countries, where you're talking about slower computers and slower Internet connections: they were really struggling to upload photos to Facebook."

Tags: facebook, facebook photos, FacebookPhotos, photo album, PhotoAlbum, photos, pixel, resolution, SocialNetworking, tagging, top, web

source: CNET, Facebook Blog

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ehusarOct 1st 2010 1:22PM

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I am not sure if everyone knows this but by uploading a photo to FB you give up rights to that photo. FB could print a book of photos people have uploaded and the owners could not collect a dime. Photographers should avoid photo uploads to FB like a plague.

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tdjimOct 4th 2010 8:49PM

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Take the time to read the TOS on FB. Posting on FB gives them a non-exclusive license to use "intellectual property" as they see fit. "IP" includes photos and videos. If you don't grant them this license, they need to obtain permission for every single person that wants to view your image - have a couple hundred friends? You'd have to sign off on every one of them - which is built into FB by the privacy settings.
You aren't giving up any rights at all by posting an image.
Also, FB's license expires the moment you delete the image from their site, so if you're concerned, just delete the image and you're set.

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frankerinOct 3rd 2010 1:15PM

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So = I take a picture of family at ball game. The copyright is mine. I do not know all the people caught in the shot. I place the picture uncropped on one or more internet sites, including my own web pages, I do not have permission of anyone including family members to 'publish' their image. It is not intended to be rerieved or copied by anyone. Did I lose the copyright by so doing? I don't think so. But I have posted pictures of other people. Can they object, or sue? Have the lawyers already carved out exceptions for them, against a tort legal function? If they arbitrarily hold that they have TOS which says if you post you lose it.to them? In which case might I not say to unidentified people in the picture that they should not have stayed in the camera focus point.

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ShellOct 3rd 2010 3:41PM

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If someone is in a public place they can be photographed and posted , you give up privacy when you enter a PUBLIC area .

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Joe Papierz JrOct 3rd 2010 2:03PM

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All I can say is this sounds like the newest and richest field for attorneys to fight over in court.

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kvnmyer9Oct 3rd 2010 4:31PM

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you should NEVER EVER post any photos on facebook.my account was disabled over nothing, i have gotten NO help from the help center.now i cant get to my deceased fathers pictures i stored on facebook for safe keeping. i never got a warning or anything.they have not looked into this matter.and if little kids dont get their way on the games they report you and get you kicked off facebook and there goes your precious pictures...i will never buy another facebook game card or participate in the salaries of facebook employees or any other game affiliated with facebook..boycott facebook and let them know they cant treat you just any way they see fit...FACEBOOK at least investigate a so-called reported problem before you disable someones account.....IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU AND YOU AND YOU ETC.......

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kvnmyer9Oct 3rd 2010 6:51PM

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never put your photos on facebook.if you get disabled for a minor infraction you will lose your account and you will never see your photos again

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blushingsun123Oct 3rd 2010 4:35PM

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Lets wake up people have you sen the lepper colony of pics on peoples facebook? nobody wants you drunking tailgates photos to make money off of so all relax

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claboda7371Oct 3rd 2010 4:50PM

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This new uploader is terrible. It took 8 hours and still didn't upload the photos. Go back to the other one. Stop changing what was working. This is way too time consuming.

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jeff FOct 4th 2010 2:30AM

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More crap you don't need. Who needs one more photo of anything. It was bad enough looking at vacation photo's and the like.
I love when all this nonsense bites people in the rear and everyone thinks they are so important. Off to my dank basement apartment and no I'm not bitter.

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